Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 14 connects to 10 cross-references. Job meditates on the brevity and inevitability of human mortality, comparing human life to a flower cut down. He muses wistfully that if a tree is cut down it sprouts again, but a man lies down and does not rise. …
Other Translations
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Cross References
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is …
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This …
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John …
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an …
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be …
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man …