Job 14:10

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Cross-reference

Job 14:12 Parallel

In Job 14:12, Job continues that man does not rise again — reinforcing the permanent death from verse 10.

Job 3:11 Parallel

In Job 3:11, Job laments not dying at birth — the same despair over death's finality found here.

In Job 7:7-10, Job uses cloud vanishing imagery for death never returning, echoing the same finality here.

Job 19:26 Contrast

In Job 19:26, Job expresses hope to see God after death — a stark contrast to the despair of death here.

Job 10:18 Parallel

In Job 10:18, Job wishes he had died before being born — another expression of the same hopelessness about death.

In Job 17:13-16, Job elaborates on the same hopeless death, seeing the grave as his only home.

Job 20:7 Allusion

Job 20:7 uses the same 'where is he?' phrase for the wicked who perish — echoing Job 14:10's question about all humans.

Job 16:22 Parallel

Job 16:22 speaks of going the way of no return — a direct parallel to the mortality and finality in Job 14:10.

Job 10:21 Parallel

Job 10:21 repeats the idea of going to darkness and not returning — reinforcing the irreversible departure questioned in Job 14:10.

Job 7:9 Parallel

Job 7:9 echoes the finality of death — as a cloud vanishes, the dead do not return from Sheol, answering the 'where is he?' of Job 14:10.

Job 11:20 Parallel

In Job 11:20, the wicked's hope is to breathe their last — a similar focus on expiration, but applied to the wicked specifically.

In Genesis 49:33, Jacob breathes his last using the same Hebrew phrase, but dies peacefully gathered to his people.

Psalm 39:13 Parallel

Psalm 39:13 laments departure and being no more — a strong parallel to Job's reflection on human mortality in Job 14:10.

Psalm 103:16 says the wind passes and its place knows it no more — directly parallels the 'where is he?' of Job 14:10.

Psalm 146:4 Parallel

Psalm 146:4 states when breath departs, plans perish — echoes the finality and the question of what becomes of a person after death.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 echoes Job's theme: both humans and animals share the same mortal fate, dying and breathing their last.

1 Corinthians 15:43 describes the body sown in weakness but raised in glory—contrasting Job's view of death as the irreversible end.

In Matthew 27:50, Jesus gives up his spirit — a voluntary, redemptive death, contrasting with the hopeless end here.

Psalm 37:10 Parallel

Psalm 37:10 says the wicked will be no more and their place gone — similar to 'where is he?' but limited to the wicked.

In Proverbs 14:32, the righteous find refuge even in death — offering hope that contrasts with the bleak view here.

Zechariah 1:5 asks 'do the prophets live forever?'—affirming death's finality, just as Job states man 'breathes his last and is no more.'

Luke 16:22 Contrast

In Luke 16:22, both beggar and rich man die but enter an afterlife — contrasting with death as the end here.

Luke 16:23 Contrast

In Luke 16:23, the rich man is in torment after death — further contrasting with Job's view of death as unconsciousness.