Job 14:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Since 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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  • Ps 39:4 : 4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
  • Job 21:21 : 21 For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:
  • Job 23:13-14 : 13 But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does. 14 For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.
  • 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 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Ps 104:9 : 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’
  • Dan 5:26 : 26 This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene– God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 “Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every deity and he will utter presumptuous things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must occur.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

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    6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

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    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Job 14:1-4
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  • Job 23:13-14
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    13But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

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  • Job 7:1
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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?

  • Job 14:20
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    20You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Prov 8:29
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    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 34:21
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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

  • Job 11:10
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    10If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

  • Job 24:22-23
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    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

    23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 14:13-14
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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.

  • Job 9:12
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    12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’

  • Ps 104:9
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    9You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

  • Job 21:21
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    21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Job 30:23
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    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Job 14:16
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    16The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

  • Job 7:17
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • Job 33:13
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    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

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    2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

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    14If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

  • Job 38:21
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    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

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    10The Futile Way Life Works Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

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    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

  • Job 15:14
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    14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 21:4
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    4He asked you to sustain his life, and you have granted him long life and an enduring dynasty.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 31:4
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    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

  • Job 33:22
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    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24The steps of a person are ordained by the LORD– so how can anyone understand his own way?

  • Job 35:14
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    14How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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    14God’s Sovereignty I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.

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    1The Apparent Indifference of God“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?