14Job 14

1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.Select Job 14:1

2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.Select Job 14:2

3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?Select Job 14:3

4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?Select Job 14:4

5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.Select Job 14:5

6Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.Select Job 14:6

7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.Select Job 14:7

8If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:Select Job 14:8

9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.Select Job 14:9

10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?Select Job 14:10

11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;Select Job 14:11

12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.Select Job 14:12

13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?Select Job 14:13

14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.Select Job 14:14

15Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.Select Job 14:15

16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.Select Job 14:16

17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.Select Job 14:17

18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.Select Job 14:18

19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.Select Job 14:19

20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.Select Job 14:20

21Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.Select Job 14:21

22But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.Select Job 14:22