Parallel Verses

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.

Darby Translation

Man, born of woman, is of few days, 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, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
2 He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.

Cross References

Job 5:7

yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are only sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he that is born of a woman be clean?

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

Matthew 11:11

Verily I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

Job 7:1

Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are 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

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, the pain of my iniquity has caused me to writhe; my mother conceived me so that sin might be removed from me.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore I hated life because every work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

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