Job 14:10
“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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Cross-References
“O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.”
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”
“Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;”
“And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:”