Numbered Days

[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;
[Days are determined - The general term of human life is fixed by G-d Himself; in vain are all attempts to prolong it beyond this term. Nor can death be avoided, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return, is the Law.
With Thee - In His power and disposal, for Thou hast appointed a certain end of ones days, beyond which he cannot prolong his life.
Appointed bounds -although man cannot pass his appointed bounds, yet he may so live as never to reach them. For folly and wickedness abridge the term of human life; and therefore the psalmist says, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out HALF their days, Psalms 55:23, for by laziness, overindulgence, and disorderly passions, the life of man is shortened.
Three things we are here assured of:
1. That our life will come to an end; our days upon earth are not numberless, are not endless, no, they are numbered, and will soon be finished, Daniel 5:26.
2. That it is determined, in the counsel and decree of G-d, how long we shall live and when we shall die. The number of our months is with G-d, at the disposal of His power, which cannot be controlled, and under the view of His omniscience, which cannot be deceived. It is certain that G-d's providence has the ordering of the period of our lives; our times are in His hand. The powers of nature depend upon Him, and act under Him. In Him we live and move. Diseases are His servants; He kills and makes alive. Nothing comes to pass by chance; everything has to be Father-filtered first. It is therefore certain that G-d's insight has determined it before; for known unto G-d are all His works. Whatever He does He determined, yet with a regard partly to the settled course of nature (the end and the means are determined together) and to the settled rules of moral government, punishing evil and rewarding good in this life.
3. That the bounds G-d has fixed, so make the best of the time you got.]
[6] Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
[It is appointed to me once to die; let that one day suffice me, and let me not then be continually dying, dying a thousand deaths. I will make the best of the common hardships of human life, the burden and heat of the day; but let me not feel those uncommon tortures, let not my life be as the day of a malefactor, all execution-day.I have come to the period of my life, which Thou has allotted to me, as a man appoints a set time to a hired servant. Let it suffice that my life, at best, is as the day of a hireling, a day of toil and labor. I am content to accomplish that, thus may we find some relief under great troubles by recommending ourselves to the compassion of that G-d who knows our frame and will consider it and our being out of frame too.]