Job 14:22
Good News Translation
We feel only the pain of our own bodies and the grief of our own minds.

New Revised Standard Version
They feel only the pain of their own bodies, and mourn only for themselves.”

Contemporary English Version
We feel no pain but our own, and when we mourn, it's only for ourselves.

New American Bible
Only for themselves, their pain; only for themselves, their mourning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.

his flesh

Job 19:20,22,26 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. . . .

Job 33:19-21 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. . . .

his soul

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Luke 16:23,24 And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom: . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
21Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. 22But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
Cross References
Job 14:21
Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.

Job 15:1
And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:

Job 14:21
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