Job 14:1
“We humans are very frail. We live only a short time, and we experience a lot of trouble.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 47:9Jacob replied, “I have been traveling around for 130 years. I have not lived as long as my ancestors, but my life has been full of troubles.”
Job 5:7People have troubles from the time that they are born just as surely as sparks shoot up from a fire.
Job 7:6My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s ◄shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth►, and they end without my confidently expecting that things will be better the next day.
Job 9:25“My days go by very quickly, like a fast runner; it is as though they run away, and nothing good happens to me on those days.
Job 25:4So, ◄how can God consider anyone to be righteous?/God certainly cannot consider anyone to be righteous.► [RHQ] ◄How can any human being be truly pure?/No human being can be truly pure.► [RHQ]
Psalms 39:5It seems that you have caused me to live only a short time; ◄my lifetime/all the time that I have lived► seems like nothing to you. The time that all we humans live is as short as [MET] a puff of wind. (Think about that!)
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 →