Comprehensive Job 14 Quiz with Answers

Answer: C — Job emphasizes the brevity and sorrow of human life.

KJV Reference: Job 14:1 – “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”

Answer: C — Job uses vivid imagery to stress life’s frailty.

KJV Reference: Job 14:2 – “He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”

Answer: C — Job questions why God would even concern Himself with frail man.

KJV Reference: Job 14:3 – “And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?”

Answer: B — Job affirms human sinfulness and spiritual impurity.

KJV Reference: Job 14:4 – “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.”

Answer: B — Job acknowledges that God has set man’s boundaries.

KJV Reference: Job 14:5 – “Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;”

Answer: D — Job asks for relief, that man may enjoy some peace before death.

KJV Reference: Job 14:6 – “Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.”

Answer: D — Job contrasts the hope of a tree with the seeming hopelessness of man.

KJV Reference: Job 14:7 – “For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again…”

Answer: C — Job poetically notes that even a faint sign of water brings renewal to the tree.

KJV Reference: Job 14:9 – “Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.”

Answer: D — Job emphasizes the finality of death from a human perspective.

KJV Reference: Job 14:10 – “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”

Answer: D — Job compares man’s death to waters that vanish, never to return.

KJV Reference: Job 14:11–12 – “As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not…”

Answer: C — Job sees man’s death as permanent until a cosmic change occurs.

KJV Reference: Job 14:12 – “So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more…”

Answer: A — Job longs for rest in the grave until God is ready to remember him.

KJV Reference: Job 14:13 – “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past…”

Answer: B — Job asks the ultimate question about life after death.

KJV Reference: Job 14:14 – “If a man die, shall he live again?”

Answer: D — Job expresses hope in resurrection and God’s remembrance.

KJV Reference: Job 14:15 – “Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.”

Answer: B — Job feels constantly under divine scrutiny.

KJV Reference: Job 14:16 – “For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?”

Answer: D — Job believes that his sin is remembered and preserved by God.

KJV Reference: Job 14:17 – “My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.”

Answer: B — Job illustrates how constant pressure wears down even the strongest things.

KJV Reference: Job 14:18 – “And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.”

Answer: C — The persistent force of water can destroy even stones.

KJV Reference: Job 14:19 – “The waters wear the stones…”

Answer: D — Job feels abandoned and hopeless before God’s judgment.

KJV Reference: Job 14:19 – “…thou destroyest the hope of man.”

Answer: D — Death disconnects man from the joys and sorrows of the living.

KJV Reference: Job 14:21 – “His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.”