Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Majority Standard Bible
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 comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. 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 →