Job 14:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?”
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BSBPD
“But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where <FI>is<Fi> he?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 14:10 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 49:33When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 14:12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
- Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Matthew 27:50When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.
- Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
- Acts 5:10At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
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