Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Holman Bible

Since man’s days are determined
and the number of his months depends on You,
and since You have set limits he cannot pass,

International Standard Version

Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.

A Conservative Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

American Standard Version

Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Amplified


“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

Bible in Basic English

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Darby Translation

If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

Julia Smith Translation

If his days are determined, the number of his months with thee; thou madest his limit; he shall not pass over.

King James 2000

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Lexham Expanded Bible

If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].

Modern King James verseion

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them.

NET Bible

Since man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

New Heart English Bible

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

The Emphasized Bible

If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.

Webster

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

World English Bible

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

Youngs Literal Translation

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אם 
'im 
Usage: 999

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

חרץ 
Charats 
Usage: 12

the number
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

of his months
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! 5 “Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.
6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.


Cross References

Job 21:21

For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off in death?

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.

Psalm 39:4

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.

Job 12:10

In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.

Job 23:13-14

But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? He does what he wants to do.

Psalm 104:9

You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: 'What do you do?'

Daniel 5:26

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Daniel 11:36

The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god. He will speak horrable (atrocious) things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the indignation is accomplished for that which is determined will be done.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

Acts 17:26

From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.

Hebrews 9:27

It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Revelation 1:18

I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

Revelation 3:7

To the angel of the congregation in Philadelphia write: He says these things. He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.

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