Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Parallel translations
- WEB Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
- KJV Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- NKJV Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.
- NASB “Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And You have set his limits so that he cannot pass.
- NLT 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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Quick answer
Job affirms that God has fixed the length of every human life. Our days and limits are appointed by Him.
Overview
Job acknowledges that man's days are determined, his months numbered, and his bounds appointed by God so that he cannot pass them. Life's span lies wholly in God's hands. This sovereignty over our days is both humbling and comforting, assuring believers that nothing in their lifespan falls outside God's wise appointment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Acts 17:26From 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 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Ps 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Dan 5:26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- Job 21:21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
- Luke 12:20But 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 23:13–14But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Ps 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
- Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- Rev 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
- Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Dan 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
- Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Dan 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
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