Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. New Living Translation “How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! English Standard Version “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. Berean Standard Bible “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. King James Bible Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. New King James Version “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble. New American Standard Bible “Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. NASB 1995 “Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. NASB 1977 “Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. Legacy Standard Bible “Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. Amplified Bible “Man, who is born of a woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. Christian Standard Bible Anyone born of woman is short of days and full of trouble. Holman Christian Standard Bible Man born of woman is short of days and full of trouble. American Standard Version Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Thus is the man born of woman, and he is few of days and suffers terror Brenton Septuagint Translation For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath. Contemporary English Version Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul. Douay-Rheims Bible Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. English Revised Version Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. GOD'S WORD® Translation "A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble. Good News Translation We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life. International Standard Version Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble. JPS Tanakh 1917 Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. Literal Standard Version “Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble! Majority Standard Bible “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. New American Bible Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble, NET Bible "Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble. New Revised Standard Version “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, New Heart English Bible "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. Webster's Bible Translation Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. World English Bible “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. Young's Literal Translation Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Laments the Finality of Death1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. 2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.… Cross References Genesis 3:17 And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 7:1 "Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? Job 10:20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, Psalm 89:47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! Ecclesiastes 2:23 Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile. Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame? Treasury of Scripture Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. born Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. of few days. Job 7:1,6 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? … Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. full Job 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Ecclesiastes 2:17,23 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit… Jump to Previous Born Few Full Short Short-Lived Trouble TurmoilJump to Next Born Few Full Short Short-Lived Trouble TurmoilJob 14 1. Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death7. He waits for his change 16. By sin the creature is subject to corruption XIV. (1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days.--He now takes occasion to dilate on the miserable estate of man generally, rising from the particular instance in himself to the common lot of the race. It is not improbable that these words should be connected with the last of the former chapter. He, as a rotten thing, consumeth--a man born of woman, short of days and full of trouble, who came forth as a flower and was (began to be) cut off (at once); who fled as the shadow that abideth not. After having resolved to come into judgment with God, he pictures to himself the miserable creature with whom God will have to contend if He contends with him. Verses 1-22. - This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative vehemence and passion of the two preceding chapters. It would seem that the patriarch, having vented his feelings, experiences a certain relief, an interval of calm, in which, his own woes pressing less heavily upon him, he is content to moralize on the general condition of humanity. Verse 1. - Man that is born of a woman. In this fact Job sees the origin of man's inherent weakness. He is "born of a woman," who is "the weaker vessel" (1 Peter 3:7). He is conceived by her in uncleanness (Psalm 51:5; comp. below, ver. 4), brought forth in sorrow and pain (Genesis 3:16) suckled at her breasts, placed for years under her guidance. No wonder that he shares the weakness of which she is a sort of type. Is of few days; literally, short of days. Length and shortness of days are, no doubt, relative; and it is difficult to say what term of life would not have seemed short to men as they looked back upon it. To Jacob, at the age of a hundred and thirty, it appeared that "few and evil had the days of the years of his life been" (Genesis 47:9). Methuselah, perhaps, thought the same. We all, as we come towards old age, and death draws manifestly near, feel as if we had only just begun to live, as if, at any rate, we had not done half our work, and were about to be cut off before our time. But would the case be seriously different if our tale of years were doubled? And fall of trouble (comp. Job 5:7).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Man,אָ֭דָם (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being who is born יְל֣וּד (yə·lūḏ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage of woman, אִשָּׁ֑ה (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female is short קְצַ֥ר (qə·ṣar) Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's 7116: Short of days יָ֝מִ֗ים (yā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day and full וּֽשְׂבַֽע־ (ū·śə·ḇa‘-) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited of trouble. רֹֽגֶז׃ (rō·ḡez) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7267: Commotion, restlessness, crash, disquiet, anger Links Job 14:1 NIVJob 14:1 NLT Job 14:1 ESV Job 14:1 NASB Job 14:1 KJV Job 14:1 BibleApps.com Job 14:1 Biblia Paralela Job 14:1 Chinese Bible Job 14:1 French Bible Job 14:1 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 14:1 Man who is born of a woman (Jb) |
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