Job 14:1 — King James Version← Study notes
“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
Job 14:1 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 14:17 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman liveth a short time, and is full of many miseries. In Sacred Writ ‘woman’ is taken either for the sex, or else for ‘frailty.’ For the ‘sex,’ as where it is written, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law. But for frailty, as where it is said by the Wise Man, Better is the iniquity of a man than a woman doing well. For ‘a man’ is the term for every strongminded and discreet person, but ‘a woman’ is understood of the weak or…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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