Job 14:10
But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river is drained dry;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 7:7O remember that my life is a breath; mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:21And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.
Job 17:13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have 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 →