Job 14:10
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
11Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers,—like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.
Job 7:7Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:
Job 7:21And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.
Job 11:20But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail,—and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.
Job 17:13If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
Job 20:7Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had 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 →