Job 14:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃

Transliteration

ʾādām yəlûd ʾiššâ qəṣar yāmîm ûśəbaʿ-rōgez

Grammar Details

*ʾādām*: noun, masculine, singular - man/human/Adam
*yəlûd*: adjective, masculine, singular, construct - born of
*ʾiššâ*: noun, feminine, singular - woman
*qəṣar*: adjective, masculine, singular, construct - short of
*yāmîm*: noun, masculine, plural - days
*ûśəbaʿ*: conjunction + adjective, masculine, singular, construct - and full/satisfied of
*rōgez*: noun, masculine, singular - agitation/trouble/anger

Word Meanings

*ʾādām*: man/mankind/human/Adam
*yəlûd*: born of/brought forth from
*qəṣar*: short/brief/limited
*ûśəbaʿ*: and saturated/full/satisfied
*rōgez*: turmoil/agitation/anger/trouble

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 5:7 : 7 But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
Matt 11:11 : 11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Job 7:1 : 1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Job 9:25 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

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