Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2As a flower, he cometh forth—and fadeth, 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 sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years,—Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
Job 5:7Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
Job 7:6My days, are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
Job 9:25My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.
Job 25:4How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee,—Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [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 →