Job 14:1
“Life is short and full of trouble,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9“I have been wandering for 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My life has been short and difficult—I have not lived as long as my forefathers who also wandered from place to place.”
Job 5:7But human beings are born for trouble just as certainly as sparks from a fire fly upwards.
Job 7:6My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25The days of my life race by like a runner, rushing past without me seeing any happiness.
Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Psalms 39:5Just look at the tiny amount of days you have given me! In your eyes my whole lifetime is like nothing. Our lives here are just a breath… Selah.
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 →