Job 14:10
But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
11The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].
Job 7:7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:21And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.
Job 17:13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Job 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →