Job 14:1-2

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

¹ "Man who is _k born of a woman
is _l few of days and _m full of trouble.
² He comes out like _n a flower and _o withers;
he flees like _p a shadow and continues not.

1. Cross References
   Job 15:14
   What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
   Job 25:4
   How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
   Matthew 11:11
   Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 10:20
   Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
   Job 16:22
   For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
   Genesis 47:9
   And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.
   Psalms 39:5
   Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
   Psalms 89:47
   Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
   
3. Cross References
   Job 5:7
   But man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 103:15
   As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field.
   Isaiah 40:6 - 7
   A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
   James 1:10
   And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
   1 Peter 1:24
   For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls.
   
5. Cross References
   Psalms 37:2
   For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
   Psalms 90:6
   In the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
   
6. Cross References
   Job 8:9
   For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
   Job 17:7
   My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
   Psalms 109:23
   I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.