Job 14:10
But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9just a trickle of water will make it bud and grow branches like a young plant.
11Like water evaporating from a lake and a river that dries up and disappears,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15In your eyes we are strangers and foreigners, just like our forefathers. Our time here on earth passes like a shadow, we have no hope of staying here long.
Job 7:7Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
Job 7:21If so why don't you pardon my sins, and take away my guilt? Right now I'm going to lie down in the dust, and though you will look for me, I will be gone.”
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, they will not be able to escape, and their only hope is in death.”
Job 17:13What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness?
Job 20:7they will vanish forever like their own excrement. People who knew them will ask, ‘Where have they gone?’
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 →