Job 14:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ps 39:4 : 4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
  • Job 21:21 : 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
  • Job 23:13-14 : 13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul. 14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
  • 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 12:10 : 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
  • Job 14:14 : 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.
  • Ps 104:9 : 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
  • Ps 104:29 : 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.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
  • Dan 5:26 : 26 This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

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  • 6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

  • 5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Job 14:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    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?

    4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

    14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    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.)

  • 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?

  • 20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • 10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

  • Job 24:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

    23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • 12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

  • 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

  • 7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

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

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • 2 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

  • 14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

  • 21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

  • 12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

  • 10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

  • 5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

  • 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.

  • 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • 4 He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

  • 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,

  • 4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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

  • 24 A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

  • 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • 14 I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.

  • 1 Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?