Job 14:1
For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
Job 5:7yet man is born to labor, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.
Job 7:6And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
Job 9:25But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.
Job 25:4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
Psalms 39:5O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. 1
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 →