Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Cross-reference
Job 5:7 states man is born to trouble as sparks fly upward, directly affirming the 'full of trouble' part of this verse.
Job 7:1 compares human life to hard service and hired days, reinforcing the same theme of toil and brevity.
Job 7:6 pictures days swift as a weaver's shuttle ending without hope, echoing the 'few of days' lament.
Job 9:25 compares days to a swift runner fleeing without good, paralleling the brevity and trouble of life.
Job 15:14 echoes 'born of a woman' to question human purity, reinforcing Job 14:1's theme of innate frailty.
Job 25:4 uses the same 'born of woman' phrase to argue human impurity before God, mirroring the condition stated here.
In Job 10:20, Job himself laments 'Are not my days few?' seeking relief, directly paralleling his earlier statement.
Genesis 47:9 has Jacob call his years 'few and evil', directly mirroring Job's description of life's brevity and trouble.
Psalm 39:5 declares days as mere handbreadths and life a breath, reinforcing the theme of transience.
Ecclesiastes 2:23 directly mirrors Job 14:1: 'all his days are full of sorrow, and his work a vexation'.
In Ecclesiastes 2:17, the Preacher also hates life because of its grievous vanity, echoing Job's 'full of trouble'.
James 4:14 describes life as a vanishing mist — directly parallel to Job's 'few of days and full of trouble' in depicting human transience.
Genesis 3:17 traces the origin of life's trouble to the curse on the ground after the Fall, grounding Job's observation.
Luke 12:19 depicts a man assuming many years ahead — directly contradicting Job's assertion that life is few of days and full of trouble.
Matthew 11:28 offers rest to the heavy-laden — directly addressing the trouble-filled life Job laments, turning despair into invitation.
In Jeremiah 20:18, the prophet echoes Job's complaint — life as labor, sorrow, and shame — reinforcing the theme of troubled existence.
Psalm 144:4 says man is like a breath and his days like a passing shadow, directly paralleling Job's brevity of life.
Psalm 103:15 compares man's days to grass and flowers, emphasizing transience similar to Job's 'few of days'.
Psalm 89:47 asks God to remember how short man's time is, calling it vanity — a direct echo of Job 14:1.
In Ecclesiastes 6:5, the stillborn never sees the sun yet has rest — contrasting Job's lament that life is brief and trouble-filled.
Psalm 51:5 speaks of being conceived in sin, deepening the idea of trouble from birth beyond mere brevity.
Psalm 78:33 recounts God making Israel's days vanish like breath in terror, a historical instance of short, troubled life.
In 1 Corinthians 7:29, Paul declares the time is short — echoing Job's perspective on life's brevity with an eschatological urgency.