Bible Strands
Job 14:5
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his friends in the third cycle of speeches, arguing that human life is brief and bounded by God.
The words — חֲרוּצִים (charutzim) carries the root sense of "swift, hastening" (H2782), so the days are not merely fixed but swift — a tension the English "determined" smooths over.
The thread — The fixed measure of human days recurs in Psalms 39:4 and Acts 17:26; Job 12:10 grounds the same claim in God's hand holding all life.
Why it lands — The verse removes the possibility that human life is negotiable, forcing the reader to face that suffering within a bounded span is the actual condition to be answered.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Cross-references
- Psalms 39:4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Acts 17:26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Job 12:10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Psalms 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Job 21:21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
- Daniel 5:26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Job 23:13 But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Psalms 104:9 You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.