Job Speaks of Life’s Woes

14 “Man who is born of woman
Is of few days and (A)full of [a]trouble.

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  1. Job 14:1 turmoil

Yet man is (A)born to [a]trouble,
As the sparks fly upward.

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  1. Job 5:7 labor

23 For all his days are (A)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?

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Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless

Is there not (A)a time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

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(A)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

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14 “What(A) is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

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25 “Now (A)my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

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“My(A) days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, (A)“The days of the years of my [a]pilgrimage are (B)one hundred and thirty years; (C)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (D)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:9 Lit. sojourning

11 “Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

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17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

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Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah

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