Job 14

1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath.

2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

3 And does you open your eyes upon such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].

6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a worker, his day.

Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.

7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.

8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;

9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.

10 But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:

For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.

12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! (Sheol h7585)

For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me! (Sheol h7585)

14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

15 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.

Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.

16 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?

But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up mine iniquity.

An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

18 And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.

And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.

19 The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroys the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

20 You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.

Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;

21 His sons come to honour, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.