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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    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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    1Has 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 14:20
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    20You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Job 26:10
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    29When 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:

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

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

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

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13If 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!

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

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

  • Job 30:23
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    23For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

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

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

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

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