Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
King James Version
In Context
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 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 →