Job 14:1

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

¹ “Man, who is born of 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 sparks fly upward.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Matthew 11:11

Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater 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 come to an end without hope.

Job 9:25

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

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.