New Living Translation
Job 14:1
1“How frail is humanity! How short is life, how 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
“How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! 2We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear. 3Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?
Read all of Job 14Job 14:1 word by word
אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 14:1
- Job 15:14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?
- Job 25:4How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
- Psalms 51:5For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
- Matthew 11:11“I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!
- Job 7:1“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
- Job 9:25“My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
- Genesis 47:9Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”
- Psalms 39:5You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” Interlude
- Job 5:7People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless—like chasing 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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