Job 14:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.”
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BSBPD
““Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 14:1 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- 2 Kings 4:19“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
- Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:23Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
- Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
- Matthew 11:11Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
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