Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 20:7yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →