Job 14:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They feel only the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, And his soul within him shall mourn.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But his body [lamenting its decay in the grave] shall grieve over him, and his soul shall mourn [over the body of clay which it once enlivened].

American Standard Version (1901)

But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

Common English Bible

They only feel the pain of their body, and they mourn for themselves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And in this way his body, while he yet lives, will have grief, and his soul will mourn over himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain: and his soul shall mourn over him.

Job 14:22 Cross References

Job 14:21

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Job 15:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

Job 19:20

My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:22

Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.