Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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In The King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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 a hireling, his day.

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Cross References

Job 7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

Job 14:14If a man dieth, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change shall 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 my 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 →

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