Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
BSB
ASV
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
KJV
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man that is born of a woman - See the notes at Job 13:28. The object of Job in these verses, is to show the frailty and feebleness of man. He, therefore, dwells on many circumstances adapted to this, and this is one of the most stirring and beautiful. He alludes to the delicacy and feebleness, of the female sex, and says that the offspring of one so frail must himself be frail; the child of one so feeble must himself be feeble.
This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Of her, who being deceived by the tempter was first in the transgression, we are all born, and consequently derive from her that sin and corruption which both shorten our days and sadden them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ecclesiastes 2:23Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
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Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
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Matthew 11:11Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
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I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and…
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Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?