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