Job 14:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

2 Kings 4:19

He complained to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Job 10:20

Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

Job 15:14

What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

Job 25:4

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

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,

Job 5:7

but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

Job 7:1

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

Job 7:6

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

Job 8:9

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

Job 9:25

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

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?

Matthew 11:11

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