Iyov (Job) 14

1“A human being, born from a woman,

lives a short, trouble-filled life.

2He comes up like a flower and withers away,

flees like a shadow, doesn’t last.

3You fix your eyes on a creature like this?

You drag him to court with you?

4Who can bring what is pure from something impure?

No one!

5Since his days are fixed in advance,

the number of his months is known to you,

and you have fixed the limits which he can’t cross;

6look away from him, and let him be;

so that, like a hired worker,

he can finish his day in peace.

7“For a tree, there is hope

that if cut down, it will sprout again,

that its shoots will continue to grow.

8Even if its roots grow old in the earth

and its stump dies in the ground,

9yet at the scent of water it will bud

and put forth branches like a young plant.

10But when a human being grows weak and dies,

he expires; and then where is he?

11Just as water in a lake disappears,

as a river shrinks and dries up;

12so a person lies down and doesn’t arise —

until the sky no longer exists;

it will not awaken,

it won’t be roused from its sleep.

13“I wish you would hide me in Sh’ol,

conceal me until your anger has passed,

then fix a time and remember me!

14If a man dies, will he live again?

I will wait all the days of my life

for my change to come.

15You will call, and I will answer you;

you will long to see what you made again.

16Whereas now you count each step of mine,

then you will not keep watch for my sin.

17You will seal up my crime in a bag

and cover over my iniquity.

18“Just as a mountain erodes and falls away,

its rock is removed from its place,

19the water wears away its stones,

and the floods wash away its soil,

so you destroy a person’s hope.

20You overpower him, and he passes on;

you change his appearance and send him away.

21His children earn honor, but he doesn’t know it;

or they are brought low, but he doesn’t notice.

22He feels pain only for his own flesh;

he laments only for himself.”

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Job 14

1Man that is born of a woman

Is of few days, and full of trouble.

2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:

He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,

And bringest me into judgment with thee?

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

Not one.

5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee,

Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

6Turn from him, that he may rest,

Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

7For 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.

8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,

And the stock thereof die in the ground;

9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud,

And bring forth boughs like a plant.

10But man dieth, and wasteth away:

Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea,

And the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12So man lieth down, and riseth not:

Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,

Nor be raised out of their sleep.

13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave,

That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,

That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14If a man die, shall he live again?

All the days of my appointed time will I wait,

Till my change come.

15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:

Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

16For now thou numberest my steps:

Dost thou not watch over my sin?

17My transgression is sealed up in a bag,

And thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,

And the rock is removed out of his place.

19The waters wear the stones:

Thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth;

And thou destroyest the hope of man.

20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:

Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not;

And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22But his flesh upon him shall have pain,

And his soul within him shall mourn.

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