Job Laments the Finality of Death
Job 14:1
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- KJV
- Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.few…: Heb. short of days
- WEB
- “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
- ASV
- Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
- LSV
- “Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
- YLT
- Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
- DBY
- Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
- DRC
- Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
- GNV
- Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
- JPS
- Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- LXXE
- For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃
- LXX-Br
- Βρότος γὰρ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς, ὀλιγόβιος, καὶ πλήρης ὀργῆς·
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
AfflictionsEmployeeReadings, SelectDeath, NaturalManLife, NaturalLifeSinDeathAfflictions and Adversities
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Ecclesiastes 2:23Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
- Matthew 11:11Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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