Job 14:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,”
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“Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If determined are his days, The number of his months <FI>are<Fi> with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 14:5 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 21:21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
- Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
- Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Daniel 5:26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Daniel 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
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