5Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.


In Context

2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment?

4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

5 Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.

7 "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

Job 14:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;