Job 14:1
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Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

born

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Matthew 11:11 Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

of few days.

Job 7:1,6 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. . . .

Job 9:25 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

full

Job 5:7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Ecclesiastes 2:17,23 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Job 5:7
Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Job 7:1
The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Psalm 89:47
Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Ecclesiastes 2:23
All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Lexicon
Man,
אָ֭דָם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

who is born
יְל֣וּד (yə·lūḏ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

of woman,
אִשָּׁ֑ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

is short
קְצַ֥ר (qə·ṣar)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7116: Short

of days
יָ֝מִ֗ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

and full
וּֽשְׂבַֽע־ (ū·śə·ḇa‘-)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

of trouble.
רֹֽגֶז׃ (rō·ḡez)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7267: Commotion, restlessness, crash, disquiet, anger


Additional Translations
Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
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