Job 14:5

What does Job 14:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 14:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

Context

v.4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

v.5This passage

v.6Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 3:7

    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:

  • Job 12:10

    In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

  • Daniel 5:30

    In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

  • Job 14:14

    If a man die, shall he liveagain? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Revelation 1:18

    and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

  • Daniel 4:35

    and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

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