Job 14:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days, Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve, because she wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 14:1-22. Job Passes from His Own to the Common Misery of Mankind. 1. woman--feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Ge 2:21). Man being born of one so frail must be frail himself (Mt 11:11). few days--(Ge 47:9; Psa 90:10). Literally, “short of days.” Man is the reverse of full of days and short of trouble.