Verse 1

Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 5:7 : 7 But people are born to trouble, just as sparks fly upward.
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 All their days are full of sorrow, and their work is filled with grief; even at night their mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.
  • Matt 11:11 : 11 Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker?
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away and do not see any good.