Job 14:1

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

¹ “Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
²
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Born of a Woman

Full of Trouble

Job

Job 5:7

“For man is born for trouble,
[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days his work is painful and sorrowful; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity (worthless).

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

Job 25:4

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Matthew 11:11

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater [in privilege] than he.

Job 7:1

“Is not man forced to labor on earth?
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.