EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 14:1
1Everyone that a woman gives birth to lives only for a short time. The days of his life are full of trouble.
Job 14:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- New International Version (NIV)“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
Context of Job 14:1
Everyone that a woman gives birth to lives only for a short time. The days of his life are full of trouble. 2He is like a flower that grows and then it soon dies. His life quickly disappears like a shadow. 3I am only a human like that, so why do you watch me so carefully? Why do you want to bring me into a court to judge me?
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אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:1
- Job 15:14No one who is human can be truly pure and righteous.
- Job 25:4No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure.
- Psalms 51:5Yes, even from the day I was born I have done bad things. I have always been guilty of sin.
- Matthew 11:11Jesus then said, ‘I tell you this: John the Baptist is greater than any person who has ever lived until now. But now, anyone who belongs in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John. Even the least important of them is greater than he is.
- Job 7:1People have to work very hard on this earth. They have to work every day, like servants.
- Job 9:25The days of my life are passing very quickly, like a fast runner. None of my days makes me happy.
- Genesis 47:9Jacob replied, ‘I have been alive for 130 years. My years have been few, and they have been difficult. I have not lived for as long as my ancestors lived.’
- Psalms 39:5Yes, you have made the days of my life only a few! The time that I live seems very short to you. Human life is only a breath, even for those who seem to be strong. Selah.
- Job 5:7But trouble comes to everyone, as soon as they are born. It is as certain as smoke that rises from a fire.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life. Everything that happens on the earth only brings me trouble. Nothing has any purpose. It is as useless as somebody who tries to catch the wind.
Commentaries on Job 14:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Man - born of a woman - There is a delicacy in the original, not often observed: אשה ילוד אדם Adam yelud ishah, "Adam born of a woman, few of days, and full of tremor." Adam, who did not spring from woman, but was immediately formed by God, had many days, for he lived nine hundred and thirty years; during which time neither sin nor death had multiplied in the earth, as they were found in the days of Job. But the Adam who springs now from woman, in the way…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Man that is born of a woman - See the notes at Job 13:28. The object of Job in these verses, is to show the frailty and feebleness of man. He, therefore, dwells on many circumstances adapted to this, and this is one of the most stirring and beautiful. He alludes to the delicacy and feebleness, of the female sex, and says that the offspring of one so frail must himself be frail; the child of one so feeble must himself be feeble. Possibly also there may be…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Job speaks of man's life. (1-6) Of man's death. (7-15) By sin man is subject to corruption. (16-22) Verses 1-6 Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show of beauty, happiness, and splendour falls before the stroke of sickness or death, as the flower before the scythe; or passes away like the shadow. How is it possible for a man's conduct to be sinless, when his heart…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2The flower symbolizes how short life is (Psalms 90:5–6; 103:15–16; Isaiah 40:6–7). A shadow passes quickly (1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 102:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221. woman--feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Ge 2:21). Man being born of one so frail must be frail himself (Mt 11:11). few days--(Ge 47:9; Psa 90:10). Literally, "short of days." Man is the reverse of full of days and short of trouble.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
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