Parallel Verses

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.

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].

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? There is not one. 5 “Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.
6 look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Cross References

Job 21:21

For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

Job 7:1

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

Psalm 39:4

"O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life 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 service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

Job 23:13-14

But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.

Psalm 104:9

You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"

Daniel 5:26

This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

Daniel 9:24

"Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Daniel 11:36

"And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Acts 17:26

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Revelation 1:18

and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Revelation 3:7

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

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