Job 14:10
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.
Job 7:21Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.
Job 17:13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Job 20:7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has 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 →