Job 14:5

If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

In Context

4Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!

6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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Cross References

Job 7:1Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Job 14:14(If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Job 21:21For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Psalms 39:4Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.

Psalms 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7

Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →

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