Job 14:1
Man that 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 flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Job 14:3
And does you open your eyes on such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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 are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Job 14:7
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
Job 14:12
So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 14:13
O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 14:15
You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
Job 14:16
For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
Job 14:18
And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
Job 14:20
You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
Job 14:22
But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.