The Book of Job

Chapter-14

Job 14:1 Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

 

Job 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.

 

Job 14:3 And do you consider it fitting to look down with your eyes on someone in this way and to lead him into judgment with you?

 

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?

 

Job 14:5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with you; you have determined his limits, which cannot be surpassed.

 

Job 14:6 Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand.

 

Job 14:7 A tree has hope: if it has been cut, it turns green again, and its branches spring forth.

 

Job 14:8 If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust,

 

Job 14:9 at the scent of water, it will sprout and bring forth leaves, as when it had first been planted.

 

Job 14:10 Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?

 

Job 14:11 It is as if the waters had receded from the sea and an emptied river had dried up;

 

Job 14:12 just so, when a man is fallen asleep, he will not rise again, until the heavens are worn away; he will not awaken, nor rise from his sleep.

 

Job 14:13 Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me?

 

Job 14:14 Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.

 

Job 14:15 You will call me and I will answer you; to the work of your hands, you will extend your right hand.

 

Job 14:16 Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.

 

Job 14:17 You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.

 

Job 14:18 A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place.

 

Job 14:19 Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man.

 

Job 14:20 You have strengthened him for a little while, so that he may cross over into eternity. You will change his face and send him forth.

 

Job 14:21 Whether his sons have been noble or ignoble, he will not understand.

 

Job 14:22 And in this way his body, while he yet lives, will have grief, and his soul will mourn over himself.