Job 14:5
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14:5Since man’s days12 are determined,13
the number of his months is under your control;14
you have set his limit15 and he cannot pass it.
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- 12 Heb “his days.”
- 13 The passive participle is from חָרַץ (kharats), which means “determined.” The word literally means “cut” (Lev 22:22, “mutilated”). E. Dhorme, (Job, 197) takes it to mean “engraved” as on stone; from a custom of inscribing decrees on tablets of stone he derives the meaning here of “decreed.” This, he argues, is parallel to the way חָקַק (khaqaq, “engrave”) is used. The word חֹק (khoq) is an “ordinance” or “statute”; the idea is connected to the verb “to engrave.” The has “if his life should be but one day on the earth, and his months are numbered by him, you have appointed him for a time and he shall by no means exceed it.”
- 14 Heb “[is] with you.” This clearly means under God’s control.
- 15 The word חֹק (khoq) has the meanings of “decree, decision, and limit” (cf. Job 28:26; 38:10). Job is saying that God foreordains the number of the days of man. He foreknows the number of the months. He fixes the limit of human life which cannot be passed.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Since his days are determined,
and the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
A person’s days are determined;
you have decreed the number of his months
and have set limits he cannot exceed.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Since a person’s days are determined
and the number of his months depends on you,
and since you have set limits he cannot pass,
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NLTNew Living Translation
You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you;
you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Seeing his days are determined,
The number of his months are with thee,
Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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