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

3You also open Your eyes on him And bring him into judgment with Yourself. 4Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one! Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And You have set his limits so that he cannot pass. 6Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker. 7“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its 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
• are determinedחָרַץchârats · to decideH2782
• numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• of his monthsחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• setעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• his limitsחֹקchôq · statute: allotmentH2706
• so that he cannotלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• passעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674

Cross-references for Job 14:5

• Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my relief comes.
• Job 7:1“Is a person not forced to labor on earth, And are his days not like the days of a hired worker?
• Job 12:10In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
• Psalms 39:4“Lord, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.
• Daniel 5:26This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Menē’--God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
• Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the wrongdoing, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, 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 as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and boast against every god and will speak dreadful things against the God of gods; and he will be successful until the indignation is finished, because that which is determined will be done.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is demanded of you; and as for all that you have prepared, who will own it now?’
• Acts 17:26and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
• Hebrews 9:27And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment,
• Job 21:21For what does he care about his household after him, When the number of his months is at an end?
• Job 23:13But He is unique, and who can make Him turn? Whatever His soul desires, He does it.
• Psalms 104:9You set a boundary so that they will not pass over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.
• Daniel 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, But He does according to His will among the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can fend off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
• Revelation 1:18and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
• Revelation 3:7“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

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