Job 14:1
Good News Translation
We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

New Revised Standard Version
“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Contemporary English Version
Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul.

New American Bible
Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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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?

Job 13:28
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