Job 14

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.
 3 And do you q open your eyes on such a one
and r bring me into judgment with you?
 4 Who can bring s a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
 5 Since his t days are determined,
and u the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
 6 v look away from him and leave him alone, 1
that he may enjoy, like w a hired hand, his day.

7 "For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
 8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and x its stump die in the soil,
 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out y branches like a young plant.
 10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and z where is he?
 11 a As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
 12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till b the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be c roused out of his sleep.
 13 Oh that you would d hide me in e Sheol,
that you would d conceal me f until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my g service I would h wait,
till my renewal 2 should come.
 15 You would i call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the j work of your hands.
 16 For then you would k number my steps;
you would not keep l watch over my sin;
 17 my transgression would be m sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.

18 "But the mountain falls and n crumbles away,
and o the rock is removed from its place;
 19 the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
 20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.
 21 His sons come to honor, and he p does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
 22 He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself."

  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.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 8:4
    What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
    Psalms 144:3
    O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
  8. Cross References
    Job 22:4
    Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
    Psalms 143:2
    Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
  9. 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?
    Psalms 51:5
    Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
    John 3:6
    That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  10. Cross References
    Job 7:1
    Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
    Psalms 39:4
    O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
  11. Cross References
    Job 21:21
    For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
  12. Cross References
    Job 7:19
    How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
  13. Cross References
    Job 7:1
    Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:1
    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
  15. Cross References
    Job 29:19
    My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.
  16. Cross References
    Job 29:7
    When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:5
    And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 11:21
    That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
    Psalms 89:29
    I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
    Psalms 72:5
    May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!
    Matthew 5:18
    For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
  19. Cross References
    John 11:11
    After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 27:5
    For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
    Psalms 31:20
    In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
  21. Cross References
    Psalms 27:5
    For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
    Psalms 31:20
    In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
  22. Cross References
    Job 21:13
    They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:20
    Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
  24. Cross References
    Job 7:1
    Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
  25. Cross References
    Job 13:15
    Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
  26. Cross References
    Job 13:22
    Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
  27. Cross References
    Job 10:3
    Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
  28. Cross References
    Job 31:4
    Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
    Job 34:21
    For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
  29. Cross References
    Job 10:6
    That you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.
  30. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:34
    'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
    Hosea 13:12
    The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
  31. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:4
    All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
  32. Cross References
    Job 18:4
    You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
  33. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 9:5
    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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