Job 14:1 ““Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.”

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

World English Bible

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

American Standard Version

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Geneva Bible 1599

Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

Darby Translation

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Young's Literal Translation

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Bible in Basic English

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

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Cross references

“born”

Job 25:4 Matthew 11:11 Job 15:14 Psalm 51:5

Job 25:4 · BSB

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Matthew 11:11 · BSB

Truly 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.

Job 15:14 · BSB

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalm 51:5 · BSB

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

“of few days”

Job 7:1 Job 7:6 Job 9:25 Genesis 47:9 Psalm 39:5

Job 7:1 · BSB

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Job 7:6 · BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 9:25 · BSB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Genesis 47:9 · BSB

“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.”

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

You, 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

“full”

Job 5:7 Ecclesiastes 2:23 Ecclesiastes 2:17

Job 5:7 · BSB

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 · BSB

Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 · BSB

So 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

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