Job 14:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

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  • Job 7:7-9 : 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good. 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
  • Job 14:12 : 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
  • Job 17:13-16 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • Matt 27:50 : 50 And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
  • Acts 5:10 : 10 And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
  • Job 10:18 : 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,
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
  • Gen 49:33 : 33 And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.
  • Job 3:11 : 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

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  • Job 14:11-14
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    82%

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

    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.

  • Job 14:1-3
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    81%

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

    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?

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    78%

    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.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

    48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Job 14:8-9
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    75%

    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • Eccl 3:19-21
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    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

    21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Eccl 12:7
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    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Job 17:1
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    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Job 8:12
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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Job 4:21
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    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Ps 37:36
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    36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • Jas 4:14
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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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    8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • Job 20:7
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    7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

  • Job 21:32
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    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Eccl 12:5
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    5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    71%

    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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    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Job 14:19
    70%

    19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • Job 33:22
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    22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Job 17:15
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    15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • Ps 6:5
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    5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.