Job 14:1
Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Job 5:7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:1
Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality ( ch. xiii. 12 ); here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an account, I. Of man's life, that it is, 1. Short, ver. 1 . 2. Sorrowful, ver. 1 . 3. Sinful, ver. 4 . 4. Stinted, ver. 5 , 14 . II. Of man's death, that it puts a final period to our present… Read the whole commentary →