Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Born

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 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
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.

Of few days

Job 7:1
Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
Job 9:25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.
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.”
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.

Full

Job 5:7
For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.
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.