Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.

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In The King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

In Context

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

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Cross References

Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Job 21:21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Psalms 39:4“LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Psalms 104:29You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

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 →

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