Job 14:1
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 47:9He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
Job 5:7Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
Job 7:6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
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 →