Job 14:1
The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 5:7 : 7 but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
- Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!
- Matt 11:11 : 11 “I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is!
- Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
- Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Ps 39:5 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
- Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile– like chasing the wind.
- Job 7:1 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
- Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
- Job 9:25 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
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2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
- Job 5:6-72 verses78%
6For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
7but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
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14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
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3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?
4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
- Eccl 5:14-163 verses74%
14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
15Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.
16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
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15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
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3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
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47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
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4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
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1The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
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5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
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18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Eccl 6:3-42 verses71%
3Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years– even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity– even if he were to live forever– I would say,“A stillborn child is better off than he is!”
4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
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13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
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9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
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5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
- Ps 39:5-62 verses71%
5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
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6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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13The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!
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14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
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21He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
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4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
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11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?
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15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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1א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
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10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
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14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
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21When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
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10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.
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22His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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23For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!
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17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.