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 He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.

Born of a Woman

Full of Trouble

Job

Job 5:7

A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

Matthew 11:11

I tell you, there is none, born of women, greater then John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Job 7:1

Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Job 9:25

My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.