Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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 →