KJV King James Version
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
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Job 14:1
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
WEB World English Bible
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
ASV American Standard Version
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Surrounding context — Job 14
1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
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Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?Matthew 11:11Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.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 15:14What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
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