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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 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].
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.
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 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one! 5 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. 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
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Cross References
Job 21:21
For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?
Job 7:1
"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
Psalm 39:4
"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
Job 23:13-14
But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.
Psalm 104:9
You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
Psalm 104:29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
Daniel 4:35
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?'
Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene -- God has numbered your kingdom's days and brought it to an end.
Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Daniel 9:24
"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.
Daniel 11:36
"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.
Luke 12:20
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?'
Acts 17:26
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,
Hebrews 9:27
And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
Revelation 1:18
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!
Revelation 3:7
"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: