Job - Chapter 14 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
  • 2. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
  • 3. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
  • 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
  • 5. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
  • 6. look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
  • 7. "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
  • 8. Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
  • 9. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
  • 10. But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
  • 11. As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,
  • 12. so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.
  • 13. Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • 14. If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
  • 15. You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
  • 16. For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
  • 17. my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
  • 18. "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
  • 19. the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.
  • 20. You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
  • 21. His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
  • 22. He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."
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