Verse 1

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:7 : 7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
• Eccl 2:23 : 23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
• Matt 11:11 : 11 Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
• Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
• Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
• Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
• Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
• Job 7:1 : 1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
• Job 7:6 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
• Job 9:25 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.