14Job 14

1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.Select Job 14:1

2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.Select Job 14:2

3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?Select Job 14:3

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.Select Job 14:4

5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;Select Job 14:5

6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.Select Job 14:6

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.Select Job 14:7

8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,Select Job 14:8

9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.Select Job 14:9

10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?Select Job 14:10

11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,Select Job 14:11

12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.Select Job 14:12

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!Select Job 14:13

14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.Select Job 14:14

15You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.Select Job 14:15

16But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?Select Job 14:16

17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.Select Job 14:17

18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;Select Job 14:18

19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.Select Job 14:19

20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.Select Job 14:20

21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.Select Job 14:21

22But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”Select Job 14:22