Job 14:5

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Summary

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

His days

The number

Job 21:21

Thou hast

Revelation 3:7

Bible References

His days

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene -- God has numbered your kingdom's days and brought it to an end.

"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

"Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every deity and he will utter presumptuous things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must occur.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

The number

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

Thou hast

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, 'What have you done?'

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive -- forever and ever -- and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: