Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 14:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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Role in This Section
Job 14:10 advances the thought unit with the words “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?.” Job presses the unit's question through “But man dieth, and wasteth away”, a line that belongs to A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope.
Read It With
- Job 14:7–14:15
Read Job 14:10 with 14:7–14:15. Read alone, “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job contrasts a cut tree that sprouts again with a human who dies, then imagines being hidden in Sheol until God calls and longs for the work of his hands.
Why It Needs Context
Job 14:10 depends on 14:7–14:15; isolating “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope.”
Read Job 14:7–15 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 14:7–14:15 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 7. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Verse 8. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Verse 9. 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Verse 10. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Verse 11. 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Verse 12. 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Verse 13. 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Verse 14. 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Verse 15. 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 14:7–14:15 — A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human HopeSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 14:7–14:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 14:7–14:15
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