Job 14:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of 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

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

2 Kings 4:19

And he said 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 is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

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 know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Job 9:25

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

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

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

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does 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 say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.