Job 14:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MAN WHO is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. American Standard Version (1901) Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. Common English Bible All of us are born of women, have few days, and are full of turmoil. Catholic Public Domain Version Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Man, born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. |
And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
He complained to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah
Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.
Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!
So I hated life because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.
Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?
“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.