Job 14:5

New International Reader's Version

You decide how long anyone will live. You have established the number of his months. You have set a limit to the number of his days.

Cross References

Job 12:10

He holds the life of every creature in his hand. He controls the breath of every human being.

Job 14:14

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard work I will wait for the time when you give me new life.

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass by. Then I’ll take the path of no return.

Job 21:21

What do they care about the families they leave behind? What do they care about them when their lives come to an end?

Job 7:1

Job continued, “Don’t all human beings have to work hard on this earth? Aren’t their days like the days of hired workers?

Psalm 104:29

When you turn your face away from them, they are terrified. When you take away their breath, they die and turn back into dust.

Psalm 104:9

You drew a line they can’t cross. They will never cover the earth again.

Psalm 139:16

your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.

Psalm 31:15

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

Psalm 39:4

I said, “Lord, show me when my life will end. Show me how many days I have left. Tell me how short my life will be.

Ecclesiastes 3:2

There is a time to be born. And there’s a time to die. There is a time to plant. And there’s a time to pull up what is planted.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one can stop the wind from blowing. And no one has the power to decide when they will die. No one is let out of the army in times of war. And evil won’t let go of those who practice it.

Daniel 11:36

“A certain king will do as he pleases. He will honor himself. He will put himself above every god. He will say things against the greatest God of all. Those things have never been heard before. He will have success until God is not angry anymore. What God has decided to do must take place.

Daniel 4:35

He considers all the nations on earth to be nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven. He does what he wants with the nations of the earth. No one can hold back his hand. No one can say to him, “What have you done?”

Daniel 5:26

“And here is what these words mean. “The word Mene means that God has limited the time of your rule. He has brought it to an end.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, was killed.

Daniel 9:24

“The Lord has appointed 70 ‘weeks’ for your people and your holy city. During that time, acts against God’s law will be stopped. Sin will come to an end. And the evil things people do will be paid for. Then everyone will always do what is right. Everything that has been made known in visions and prophecies will come true. And the Most Holy Room in the temple will be anointed.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Tonight I will take your life away from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Acts 17:26

From one man he made all the people of the world. Now they live all over the earth. He decided exactly when they should live. And he decided exactly where they should live.

Hebrews 9:27

People have to die once. After that, God will judge them.

Revelation 1:18

I am the Living One. I was dead. But now look! I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys to Death and Hell.

Revelation 3:7

“Here is what I command you to write to the church in Philadelphia. Here are the words of Jesus, who is holy and true. He holds the key of David. No one can shut what he opens. And no one can open what he shuts. He says,

1 Samuel 26:10

You can be sure that the Lord lives,” he said. “And you can be just as sure that the Lord himself will strike Saul down. Perhaps he’ll die a natural death. Or perhaps he’ll go into battle and be killed.