Job 14:1

New Century Version

“All of us born to women live only a few days and have lots of trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. “So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to him, “My life has been spent wandering from place to place. It has been short and filled with trouble—only one hundred thirty years. My ancestors lived much longer than I.”

2 Kings 4:19

The boy said to his father, “My head! My head!” The father said to his servant, “Take him to his mother!”

Job 10:20

The few days of my life are almost over. Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 25:5

Even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes.

Job 5:7

People produce trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 7:1

“People have a hard task on earth, and their days are like those of a laborer.

Job 7:6

“My days go by faster than a weaver’s tool, and they come to an end without hope.

Job 8:9

because we were only born yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are only a shadow.

Job 9:25

“My days go by faster than a runner; they fly away without my seeing any joy.

Psalm 39:5

You have given me only a short life; my lifetime is like nothing to you. Everyone’s life is only a breath.Selah

Psalm 39:6

People are like shadows moving about. All their work is for nothing; they collect things but don’t know who will get them.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life. It made me sad to think that everything here on earth is useless, like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All of their lives their work is full of pain and sorrow, and even at night their minds don’t rest. This is also useless.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body? All I have known is trouble and sorrow, and my life will end in shame.

Matthew 11:11

I tell you the truth, John the Baptist is greater than any other person ever born, but even the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John.