Job 14:1

Modern

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Traditional

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Literal

“ Man, born of a woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Latin

Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, repletur multis miseriis.

Hebrew

English

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

The flower symbolizes how short life is (Psalms 90:5–6; 103:15–16; Isaiah 40:6–7).
A shadow passes quickly (1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 102:11).

Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Job 7:1
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Matthew 11:11
Truly 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.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
Genesis 47:9
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Psalm 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah