Job 14:5
Man's days are determined. 1 The number of his months is with you; 1 you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass. 1
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4Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. 1
Cross References
Job 7:1Does not man have hard labor on earth? 1 Are not his days like the days of a hired man? 1
Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? 1 If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there 1 until my release should come. 1
Job 21:21For what does he care about his family after him 1 when the number of his months is cut off? 1
Psalms 39:4“Yahweh, make me know when will be the end of my life 1 and the extent of my days. 1 Show me how transient I am. 1
Psalms 104:29When you hide your face, they are troubled; 1 if you take away their breath, they die 1 and return to dust. 1
Ecclesiastes 8:8No one is ruler over his breath so as to stop the breath, + 8:8 Some versions have No one is ruler over the wind so as to stop the wind . 2 and no one has power over the day of his death. 1 No one is discharged from the army during a battle, 2 and wickedness will not rescue those who are its slaves.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →