Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Job 14:3
And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
Job 14:6
look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14:7
For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Job 14:8
Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,
Job 14:9
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,
Job 14:12
so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 14:13
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:14
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
Job 14:15
Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Job 14:16
But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
Job 14:18
But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
Job 14:20
Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
Job 14:22
But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.