Job 14:1-2 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.… I. MAN'S PRESENT STATE. 1. Its limited duration, expressed by the term "few days." How short life often is! In sleep alone one-third is consumed. The period of infancy must be deducted, and the time lost in indolence, listlessness, and trifling employment, in which much of every passing day is wasted. The varied employments in which men are compelled to labour for the bread that perisheth rarely furnish either pleasure or spiritual improvement. 2. The frailty of man's state. "He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down." The allusion is to man's physical origin and condition. 3. It is full of trouble. It has been remarked that man enters the present life with a cry, strangely prophetic of the troubles through which he must pass on his way to the grave. No stage of life is exempted from trouble. II. MAN'S DUTY. His chief business on earth is — 1. To prepare for death. 2. To dread sin. 3. To be humble. 4. To be grateful to the Saviour. (Peter Samuel.) Parallel Verses KJV: Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.WEB: "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. |
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