Job 14:1
Man born of a woman is short of days, and sated with harrowing trouble.
Leeser Tanakh
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 he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Job 5:7But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
Job 7:6My days hasten away more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end in the absence of hope.
Job 9:25And my days pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,
Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?
Psalms 39:5(39:6) Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. 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 →