14Job 14

CHAP. XIIII. / 1 Iob intreateth God for fauour, by the shortnes of life, and certainty of death. 7 Though life once lost be irrecouerable, yet he waiteth for his change. 16 By sinne the Creature is su

1Man that is borne of a woman, is of few dayes, and full of trouble.Select Job 14:1

2Hee commeth forth like a flower, and is cut downe: he fleeth also, as a shaddow and continueth not.Select Job 14:2

3And doest thou open thine eies vpon such an one, and bringest me into iudgment with thee?Select Job 14:3

4Who can bring a cleane thing out of an vncleane? not one.Select Job 14:4

5Seeing his daies are determined, the number of his moneths are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot passe.Select Job 14:5

6Turne from him that hee may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.Select Job 14:6

7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut downe, that it will sprout againe, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.Select Job 14:7

8Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground:Select Job 14:8

9Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.Select Job 14:9

10But man dyeth, and wasteth away; yea, man giueth vp the ghost, and where is hee?Select Job 14:10

11As the waters faile from the sea, and the floud decayeth and dryeth vp:Select Job 14:11

12So man lyeth downe, and riseth not, till the heauens be no more, they shall not awake; nor bee raised out of their sleepe.Select Job 14:12

13O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.Select Job 14:13

14If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come.Select Job 14:14

15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt haue a desire to the worke of thine hands.Select Job 14:15

16For nowe thou numbrest my steppes, doest thou not watch ouer my sinne?Select Job 14:16

17My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.Select Job 14:17

18And surely the mountaine falling commeth to nought: and the rocke is remoued out of his place.Select Job 14:18

19The waters weare the stones, thou washest away the things which growe out of the dust of the earth, and thou destroyest the hope of man.Select Job 14:19

20Thou preuailest for euer against him, and hee passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.Select Job 14:20

21His sonnes come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought lowe, but he perceiueth it not of them.Select Job 14:21

22But his flesh vpon him shall haue paine, and his soule within him shall mourne.Select Job 14:22