Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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;
- BSB Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
- 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
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- Ps 39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
- Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Job 12:10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
- Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Ps 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
- Dan 5:26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- Job 21:21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- Job 23:13–14But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
- Dan 4:35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
- Ps 104:9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
- Job 7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
- Rev 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
- Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
- Dan 5:30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Rev 1:18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
- Dan 11:36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
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