Job 14:1
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings [are] an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
Job 5:7For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
Job 25:4And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure — born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. 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 →