Job 14

1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue. He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. 3and bring me into judgment with you? Do you open your eyes on such a one, 4Not one. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? 5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass; 6until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. Look away from him, that he may rest, 7If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. “For there is hope for a tree, 8and its stock dies in the ground, Though its root grows old in the earth, 9and sprout boughs like a plant. yet through the scent of water it will bud, 10Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? But man dies, and is laid low. 11and the river wastes and dries up, As the waters fail from the sea, 12Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. so man lies down and doesn’t rise. 13that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, * 14All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come. If a man dies, shall he live again? 15You would have a desire to the work of your hands. You would call, and I would answer you. 16Don’t you watch over my sin? But now you number my steps. 17You fasten up my iniquity. My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. 18The rock is removed out of its place; “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. 19The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. The waters wear the stones. 20You change his face, and send him away. You forever prevail against him, and he departs. 21They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them. His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. 22and his soul within him mourns.” But his flesh on him has pain,