Job 14:5

Job 14:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• New International Version (NIV)A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

Context of Job 14:5

3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, 6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand. 7For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

Job 14:5 word by word

אִ֥ם חֲרוּצִ֨ים׀ יָמָ֗יו מִֽסְפַּר־חֳדָשָׁ֥יו אִתָּ֑ךְ חֻקָּ֥יו עָ֝שִׂ֗יתָ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲבֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear

• Sinceאִם'im · ifH518
• his daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• determinedחָרַץchârats · to decideH2782
• and the numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• of his monthsחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• with Youאֵת'êth · withH854
• and since You have setעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• limitsחֹקchôq · statute: allotmentH2706
• that he cannotלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• exceedעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674

Cross-references for Job 14:5

• Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
• Daniel 5:26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
• Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Daniel 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
• Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Job 21:21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
• Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
• Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
• Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
• Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.

Commentaries on Job 14:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Seeing his days are determined - The general term of human life is fixed by God himself; in vain are all attempts to prolong it beyond this term. Several attempts have been made in all nations to find an elixir that would expel all the seeds of disease, and keep men in continual health; but all these attempts have failed. Basil, Valentine, Norton, Dastin, Ripley, Sandivogius, Artephius, Geber, Van Helmont, Paracelsus, Philalethes, and several others, both…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Seeing his days - are “determined” Since man is so frail, and so short-lived, let him alone, that he may pass his little time with some degree of comfort and then die; see the notes at Job 7:19-21. The word “determined” here means “fixed, settled.” God has fixed the number of his days, so that they cannot be exceeded; compare the notes at Isaiah 10:23, and notes at Psalm 90:10. The number of his months are with thee - Thou hast the ordering of them, or…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. determined--(Job 7:1; Is 10:23; Da 9:27; 11:36).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings