English Standard Version
Job 14:1
1"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!
Context of Job 14:1
"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. 2He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. 3And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
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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 15:14What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Matthew 11:11Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Job 7:1"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
- Job 9:25"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."
- Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
- Job 5:7but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after 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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