Job 14:1

Modern English Version

“Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground on account of you; in hard labor you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Kings 4:19

He said to his father, “My head, my head!” And he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Stop then, and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,

Job 15:14

“What is man that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight;

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

Job 7:6

“My days fly more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 8:9

for we were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, You have made my days as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have You created all the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I began to hate life, because the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrowful, and his work is a vexation. Even at night his heart finds no rest. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see trouble and sorrow, so that my days are spent in shame?

Matthew 11:11

Truly I say to you, among those who are born of women, there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. But he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.