Job 14:1

New English Translation

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

2 Kings 4:19

He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

Job 5:7

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:1

“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 9:25

“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

Psalm 39:5

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile – like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

Matthew 11:11

“I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.