Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
King James Version
In Context
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Cross References
Job 7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 21:21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Psalms 39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psalms 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to 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 →