Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 14:5, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
- Acts 17:26
And 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 bound…
- Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
- Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Psalms 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
- Job 21:21
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- Luke 12:20
But 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
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
- Daniel 4:35
And 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 th…
- Psalms 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
- Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.