Job 14:5 - Exposition

Seeing his days are determined . Job here returns to the consideration of the shortness of man's life. "His days are determined;'' i.e. they are a limited period, known to and fixed beforehand by God. They are not like God's days, which "endure throughout all generations" ( Psalms 102:24 ). The number of his months are with thee . "With thee" means here "known to thee," "laid up in thy counsels." Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass . "His bounds" are "the limit of his lifetime." The three clauses are pleonastic. One idea pervades them all.