Job 14:22
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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:

Lexicon
He feels only
אַךְ־ (’aḵ-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

the pain
יִכְאָ֑ב (yiḵ·’āḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3510: To feel pain, to grieve, to spoil

of his own body
בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ (bə·śā·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

and mourns
תֶּאֱבָֽל׃ (te·’ĕ·ḇāl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 56: To bewail

only for
עָלָ֣יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

himself.”
וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ (wə·nap̄·šōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion


Additional Translations
He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.

But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.

But his flesh upon him hath pain, and his soul within him mourneth.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

Only -- his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him doth mourn.'
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