Job 14:1

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Job 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

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

2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

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What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

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Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Matthew 11:11

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Job 7:1

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Job 7:6

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Job 9:25

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Genesis 47:9

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Psalms 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

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

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.

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.