Job 14:5

New Century Version

Our time is limited. You have given us only so many months to live and have set limits we cannot go beyond.

Cross References

Job 12:10

The life of every creature and the breath of all people are in God’s hand.

Job 14:14

Will the dead live again? All my days are a struggle; I will wait until my change comes.

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.

Job 21:21

They do not care about the families they leave behind when their lives have come to an end.

Job 7:1

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

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die and turn to dust.

Psalm 104:9

You set borders for the seas that they cannot cross, so water will never cover the earth again.

Psalm 139:16

you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.

Psalm 31:15

My life is in your hands. Save me from my enemies and from those who are chasing me.

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, tell me when the end will come and how long I will live. Let me know how long I have.

Ecclesiastes 3:2

There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one can control the wind or stop his own death. No soldier is released in times of war, and evil does not set free those who do evil.

Daniel 11:36

“The king of the North will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself and praise himself and think he is even better than a god. He will say things against the God of gods that no one has ever heard. And he will be successful until all the bad things have happened. Then what God has planned to happen will happen.

Daniel 4:35

People on earth are not truly important. God does what he wants with the powers of heaven and the people on earth. No one can stop his powerful hand or question what he does.

Daniel 5:26

“This is what the words mean: Mene: God has counted the days until your kingdom will end.

Daniel 5:30

That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.

Daniel 9:24

“God has ordered four hundred ninety years for your people and your holy city for these reasons: to stop people from turning against God; to put an end to sin; to take away evil; to bring in goodness that continues forever; to bring about the vision and prophecy; and to appoint a most holy place.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘Foolish man! Tonight your life will be taken from you. So who will get those things you have prepared for yourself?’

Acts 17:26

God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,

Revelation 1:18

I am the One who lives; I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys to death and to the place of the dead.

Revelation 3:7

“Write this to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: “This is what the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David, says. When he opens a door, no one can close it. And when he closes it, no one can open it.

1 Samuel 26:10

As surely as the Lord lives, the Lord himself will punish Saul. Maybe Saul will die naturally, or maybe he will go into battle and be killed.