Parallel Verses

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,

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.

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 a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, 6 look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.


Cross References

Job 21:21

For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?

Job 7:1

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Psalm 39:4

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.

Job 12:10

in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

Job 23:13-14

But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

Psalm 104:9

Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Psalm 104:29

Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

Daniel 5:26

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

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and pr

Daniel 11:36

And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods. And he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished, for

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

Acts 17:26

And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Revelation 1:18

and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Revelation 3:7

And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

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