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Job 14:1
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Anyone born of woman
"Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
"All of us born to women live only a few days and have lots of trouble.
"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
"Man, who is born of a woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
"Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
"Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
"Man, who is born of woman,Is short‑lived and full of turmoil.
Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Job Continues his Prayer Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul.
"A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.
Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
"We are all human beings. Our life is short and full of trouble.
MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.
"A human being born of a woman is short of days and full of troubles.
Man born of woman is short of days, and full of turmoil.
Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man that is borne of a woman, is of few dayes, and full of trouble.
Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.
For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
A man is borun of a womman, and lyueth schort tyme, and is fillid with many wretchidnessis.
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
"Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
"How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!
"Man who is born of woman lives only a short time and is full of trouble.
"A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,
Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
"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!
"We're all adrift in the same boat: too few days, too many troubles. We spring up like wildflowers in the desert and then wilt, transient as the shadow of a cloud. Do you occupy your time with such fragile wisps? Why even bother hauling me into court? There's nothing much to us to start with; how do you expect us to amount to anything? Mortals have a limited life span. You've already decided how long we'll live— you set the boundary and no one can cross it. So why not give us a break? Ease up! Even ditchdiggers get occasional days off. For a tree there is always hope. Chop it down and it still has a chance— its roots can put out fresh sprouts. Even if its roots are old and gnarled, its stump long dormant, At the first whiff of water it comes to life, buds and grows like a sapling. But men and women? They die and stay dead. They breathe their last, and that's it. Like lakes and rivers that have dried up, parched reminders of what once was, So mortals lie down and never get up, never wake up again—never. Why don't you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools? But don't leave me there! Set a date when you'll see me again. If we humans die, will we live again? That's my question. All through these difficult days I keep hoping, waiting for the final change—for resurrection! Homesick with longing for the creature you made, you'll call—and I'll answer! You'll watch over every step I take, but you won't keep track of my missteps. My sins will be stuffed in a sack and thrown into the sea—sunk in deep ocean.
"Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
born: Job 15:14, Job 25:4, Psalms 51:5, Matthew 11:11
of few days: Heb. short of days, Job 7:1, Job 7:6, Job 9:25, Genesis 47:9, Psalms 39:5
full: Job 5:7, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:23
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:17 - in sorrow 2 Kings 4:19 - My head Job 10:20 - my days few Psalms 78:33 - years Psalms 89:47 - wherefore Psalms 103:15 - a flower Psalms 144:4 - Man Ecclesiastes 3:18 - concerning Ecclesiastes 6:5 - this Ecclesiastes 6:10 - and it Jeremiah 20:18 - came Matthew 11:28 - all Mark 9:21 - How Luke 12:19 - for 1 Corinthians 7:29 - the time James 4:14 - a vapour
Cross-References
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Man [that is] born of a woman,.... Man, Adam; not the first man, so called, for he was made and created out of the dust of the earth, and not born of a woman; the woman was made out of him, and not he of her; "earthly man", as Mr. Broughton translates it, as every descendant of Adam is; as is the earth, such are they that are earthy, everyone of which is born of a woman; yet not as opposed unto and distinguished from the heavenly One, or the Lord from heaven, for he also as man was made and born of a woman: this, though a proper description of all mankind, there being none but what are born of a woman, see Matthew 11:11; yet Job chiefly designs himself; for having spoken of his wasting circumstances in which he was, in Job 13:28, goes on in this to treat of his frailty and mortality, and to improve it into an argument with God for pity and mercy, as appears from
Job 14:3; where he speaks of himself in the first person, as here in the third, and all along: he may have respect in this clause to Eve, the mother of all living, from whom all descend, and of whom, in a sense, they may be said to be born; or else to his immediate parent, he and every man being born of a woman; no man, but the first, ever came into the world in any other way; there is one that came into the world without an earthly father, and that is our Lord Jesus Christ, but none without a mother; nor lie, who indeed was born of a virgin, and so in an extraordinary and miraculous manner; and this is observed, not so much on account of natural descent, or to denote that, as being reckoned from the mother, she having so great a concern in the production of man, conceiving, bearing, and bringing him forth; nor to remark the sinfulness of nature, though one born of a sinful woman must needs be so too, since this is expressed clearly in Job 14:4; but the weakness and frailty of man; as is the creature that generates, such is that that is generated; creatures born of strong ones are strong, and of weak ones weak; a creature born of a lion is a strong one; and man, born of a woman, must be weak and feeble, and no wonder he is short lived, as follows:
[is] of few days; or "short of days" c; comes short of the days he might have lived, if man had never sinned, and comes short of the days the first man did live, and which those before the flood generally lived, who most of them lived upwards of nine hundred years; whereas now, and ever since the times of Moses, and about which Job lived, the days of the years of man are but threescore and ten; and such are shorter of days still, who live not more than half this time, who are cut off in the bloom and prime of life, the days of whose youth are shortened, who die in their youth, or in their childhood and infancy; and such especially are short of days who are carried from the womb to the grave, or die as soon as born; and those that live the longest, their days are but few, when compared with the days of eternity, or with those men shall live in another world, either good men in heaven, or wicked men in hell, which will be for ever; and especially with respect to God, with whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, and therefore the days and age of man are as nothing before him. Job has here also a respect to himself, whose days in his own apprehension were very few, and just at an end, and therefore craves pity and compassion, see Job 10:20; and what aggravates the shortness of man's days is, as it follows:
and full of trouble; man is born to it, being born in sin; sin and trouble go together, where there is sin there is trouble; sin entered into the world, and death by it, with the numerous train of afflictions and miseries which issue in it: all men have their troubles, some of one sort, and some of another; wicked men are not indeed in trouble as other men, as good men are; they have not the same sort of trouble, yet are not exempt from all; they are "full of commotion" d disquietude and uneasiness, as the word signifies; they are restless, and ever in motion; they are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest, but is continually casting up mire and dirt; some are of such tempers and dispositions, that they cannot sleep unless they do mischief; and though they are many of them prosperous in their worldly circumstances, there are others that are reduced to poverty and distress, are attended with diseases and disorders, pains and sores, and blaspheme that God that has power over them; and these are of all men the most miserable, having no interest in God, in his loving kindness, nor any enjoyment of his presence, and so nothing to support them in, and carry them through their troubles; and though they are generally without any sense of sin or danger, have no remorse of conscience, and their hearts are hardened; yet at times they are "full of trembling" e, as some render the words; are seized with a panic through the judgments of God that are upon them, or are coming upon them, or when death is made the king of terrors to them: and good men they have their troubles; besides those in common with others, they have inward troubles arising from the vanity of their minds and thoughts, the impurity of their hearts, and the power of indwelling sin in them, and especially from the breaking forth of it in words and deeds; from the weakness of their graces, from the hidings of God's face, and the temptations of Satan: in short, Job's meaning is, that men in the ordinary course of things meet with so much trouble, that there is no need of any extraordinary afflictions to be laid on them, such as his were.
c קצר ימים "brevis dierum", Montanus, Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens; so Beza, Vatablus, Drusius, Mercerus. d שבע רגז "satur commotione", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis. e "Saturus tremore", Montanus "satur trepidi tumultus", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Man that is born of a woman - See the notes at Job 13:28. The object of Job in these verses, is to show the frailty and feebleness of man. He, therefore, dwells on many circumstances adapted to this, and this is one of the most stirring and beautiful. He alludes to the delicacy and feebleness, of the female sex, and says that the offspring of one so frail must himself be frail; the child of one so feeble must himself be feeble. Possibly also there may be an allusion here to the prevailing opinion in the Oriental world of the inferiority of the female sex. The following forcible lines by Lord Bacon, express a similar sentiment:
The world’s a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span,
In his conception wretched, from the womb
So to the tomb.
Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust.
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Of few days - Hebrew “Brief of days;” compare Psalms 90:10; Genesis 47:9.
And full of trouble - Compare the notes at Job 3:17. Who cannot bear witness to this? How expressive a description is it of life! And even too where life seems most happy; where the sun of prosperity seems to shine on our way, and where blessings like drops of dew seem to descend on us, how true is it still theft life is full of trouble, and that the way of man is a weary way! Despite all that he can do - all his care, and skill, and learning and wealth, life is a weary pilgrimage, and is burdened with many woes. “Few and evil have the days of the years of my pilgrimage been, ‘ said the patriarch Jacob, and they who have advanced near the same number of years with him can utter with deep emotion the same beautiful language. Goethe, the celebrated German, said of himself in advanced age, “They have called me a child of fortune, nor have I any wish to complain of the course of my life. Yet it has been nothing but labor and sorrow, and I may truly say that in seventy-five years I have not had four weeks of true comfort. It was the constant rolling of a stone that was always to be lifted anew. When I look back upon my earlier and middle life, and consider how few are left of those that were young with me, I am reminded of a summer visit to a watering-place. On arriving one makes the acquaintance of those who have been already some time there, and leave the week following. This loss is painful. Now one becomes attached to the second generation, with which one lives for a time and becomes intimately connected. But this also passes away and leaves us solitary with the third, which arrives shortly before our own departure, and with which we have no desire to have much contact.” - Rauch’s Psychology, p. 343.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XIV
The shortness, misery, and sinfulness of man's life, 14.
The unavoidable necessity of death; and the hope of a general
resurrection, 5-15.
Job deplores his own state, and the general wretchedness of
man, 16-22.
NOTES ON CHAP. XIV
Verse Job 14:1. Man-born of a woman — There is a delicacy in the original, not often observed: אדם ילוד אשה Adam yelud ishah, "Adam born of a woman, few of days, and full of tremor." Adam, who did not spring from woman, but was immediately formed by God, had many days, for he lived nine hundred and thirty years; during which time neither sin nor death had multiplied in the earth, as they were found in the days of Job. But the Adam who springs now from woman, in the way of ordinary generation, has very few years. Seventy, on an average, being the highest term, may be well said to be few in days; and all matter of fact shows that they are full of fears and apprehensions, רגז rogez, cares, anxieties, and tremors. He seems born, not indeed to live, but to die; and, by living, he forfeits the title to life.
