Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
King James Version
In Context
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall 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 →