Job 14:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

2 Kings 4:19

And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

Job 10:20

Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Job 25:5

See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

Job 5:7

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Job 7:1

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Job 7:6

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

Job 9:25

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:6

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

Matthew 11:11

Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.