Job 14:5

If his days are determined, || The number of his months [are] with You, || You have made his limit, || And he does not pass over;

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In The King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

In Context

4Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

6Look away from off him that he may cease, || Until he enjoy as a hired worker his day.

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Cross References

Job 7:1“Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?

Job 14:14If a man dies—does he revive? All [the] days of my warfare I wait, until my change comes.

Job 21:21For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off?

Psalms 39:4“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, || And the measure of my days—what it [is],” || I know how frail I [am].

Psalms 104:29You hide Your face—they are troubled, || You gather their spirit—they expire, || And they return to their dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.

Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7

Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →

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