Job 14:1
אָדָם יְלוּד אִשָּׁה קְצַר יָמִים וּֽשְׂבַֽע ־ רֹֽגֶז ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2כְּצִיץ יָצָא וַיִּמָּל וַיִּבְרַח כַּצֵּל וְלֹא יַעֲמֽוֹד ׃
Cross References
Genesis 47:9וַיֹּאמֶר יַעֲקֹב אֶל ־ פַּרְעֹה יְמֵי שְׁנֵי מְגוּרַי שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה מְעַט וְרָעִים הָיוּ יְמֵי שְׁנֵי חַיַּי וְלֹא הִשִּׂיגוּ אֶת ־ יְמֵי שְׁנֵי חַיֵּי אֲבֹתַי בִּימֵי מְגוּרֵיהֶֽם ׃
Job 5:7כִּֽי ־ אָדָם לְעָמָל יוּלָּד וּבְנֵי ־ רֶשֶׁף יַגְבִּיהוּ עֽוּף ׃
Job 7:6יָמַי קַלּוּ מִנִּי ־ אָרֶג וַיִּכְלוּ בְּאֶפֶס תִּקְוָֽה ׃
Job 9:25וְיָמַי קַלּוּ מִנִּי ־ רָץ בָּֽרְחוּ לֹא ־ רָאוּ טוֹבָֽה ׃
Job 25:4וּמַה ־ יִּצְדַּק אֱנוֹשׁ עִם ־ אֵל וּמַה ־ יִּזְכֶּה יְלוּד אִשָּֽׁה ׃
Psalms 39:5הוֹדִיעֵנִי יְהוָה ׀ קִצִּי וּמִדַּת יָמַי מַה ־ הִיא אֵדְעָה מֶה ־ חָדֵל אָֽנִי ׃
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 →