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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;
New American Standard Bible
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And his limits You have
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
and the number of his months depends on You,
and since You have set
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].
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;
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues To Argue His Case With God
4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. 5 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; 6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
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Cross References
Job 21:21
For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
Job 7:1
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
Psalm 39:4
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Job 23:13-14
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
Psalm 104:9
You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
Psalm 104:29
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Daniel 5:26
This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
Daniel 11:36
And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
Revelation 1:18
And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.