Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

New American Standard Bible

Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

King James Version

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Holman Bible

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

International Standard Version

Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.

A Conservative Version

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

American Standard Version

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Amplified

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Bible in Basic English

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Julia Smith Translation

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet

King James 2000

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

Modern King James verseion

Man born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

NET Bible

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

New Heart English Bible

"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

The Emphasized Bible

Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:

Webster

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

World English Bible

"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Youngs Literal Translation

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

that is born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

of a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

is of few
קצר 
Qatser 
Usage: 5

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and full
שׂבע 
 
Usage: 10

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

1 Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.


Cross References

Job 5:7

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Matthew 11:11

Verily I say to you, that there is not arisen among the born of women a greater than John the baptist. But he who is a little one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

Job 7:1

Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 9:25

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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