Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘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 →