Job 14:10
But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
11For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 7:7Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.
Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning, I am no more.
Job 11:20But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.
Job 17:13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
Job 20:7For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew 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 →