Job 14:1
Man, that is born of woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Cross References
Job 5:7Behold, man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; They pass away without hope.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a courier; They have fled away; they have seen no good.
Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth, And my life is as nothing before thee; Yea, every man in his firmest state is altogether vanity. [[Pause.]]
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 →