Job 14:1
What does Job 14:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 14:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah
- Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.
- Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Matthew 11:11
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
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