Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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
Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
If determined are his days, The number of his months <FI>are<Fi> with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
Cross References
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an …
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my …
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in …
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know …
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the …