Job 14:1
“Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2As a flower he has gone forth, and is cut off, || And he flees as a shadow and does not stand.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob says to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.”
Job 5:7For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a runner, || They have fled, they have not seen good,
Job 25:4And what? Is man righteous with God? And what? Is he pure—born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. 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 →