Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 14:1

"Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble." — Job 14:1 (ASV)

Man that is born of a woman is of few days. — He now takes the opportunity to elaborate on the miserable condition of man in general, rising from the particular instance in himself to the common lot of the human race. It is likely that these words should be connected with the end of the previous chapter. He, as a rotten thing, consumeth — a man born of woman, short of days and full of trouble, who came forth as a flower and was (began to be) cut off (at once); who fled as the shadow that abideth not. After having resolved to come into judgment with God, he imagines the miserable creature with whom God will have to contend if He contends with him.