Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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In Context
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
6Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Cross References
Job 7:1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Job 21:21For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
Psalms 39:4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
Psalms 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is 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 →