Job 14:10
Good News Translation
But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?

New Revised Standard Version
But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Contemporary English Version
Humans are different--we die, and that's the end.

New American Bible
But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him; when a mortal expires, where then is he?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

wasteth away.

Job 3:11 Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 17:13-16 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

Genesis 49:33 And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.

Matthew 27:50 And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

Acts 5:10 Immediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost. And the young men coming in found her dead: and carried her out and buried her by her husband.

where is he

Job 14:12 So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

Job 7:7-10 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things. . . .

Job 19:26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. 10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 13:9
Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

Job 14:9
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

Job 14:9
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