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 really take notice of one like this? Will you bring me into judgment against you? 4Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one! Since a person’s days are determined and the number of his months depends on you, and since you have set limits he cannot pass, 6look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker. 7There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

Job 14:5 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Seeingאִם'im · ifH518
• his daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• determinedחָרַץchârats · to decideH2782
• the numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• of his monthsחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• with thee, thou hast appointedעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• his boundsחֹקchôq · statute: allotmentH2706
• that he cannot passעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674

Cross-references for Job 14:5

• Job 14:14When a person dies, will he come back to life? If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes.
• Job 7:1Isn’t each person consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired worker?
• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all humanity.
• Psalms 39:4“Lord, make me aware of my end and the number of my days so that I will know how short-lived I am.
• Daniel 5:26This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Mene’ means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
• Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city — to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
• Daniel 11:36“Then the king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, because what has been decreed will be accomplished.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• Acts 17:26From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.
• Hebrews 9:27And just as it is appointed for people to die once — and after this, judgment —
• Job 21:21For what does he care about his family once he is dead, when the number of his months has run out?
• Job 23:13But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what he desires.
• Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.
• Daniel 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
• Revelation 1:18and the Living One. I was dead, but look — I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.
• Revelation 3:7“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: Thus says the Holy One, the true one, the one who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and who closes and no one opens:

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