Job 14:1
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
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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.
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2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
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6 For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
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14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
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3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
- Eccl 5:14-163 verses74%
14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
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15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
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3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
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10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
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47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
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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?
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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?
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5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
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18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
- Eccl 6:3-42 verses71%
3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
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13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
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5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
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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.)
6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
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6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
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14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
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21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
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4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
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11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
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15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
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1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
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10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
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14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
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21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
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10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
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8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
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22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.
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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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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.
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17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
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24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.