Job 14 — BBE

14Verse 1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.^{Verse 2}He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.^{Verse 3}Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?^{Verse 4}If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.^{Verse 5}If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;^{Verse 6}Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.^{Verse 7}For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.^{Verse 8}Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;^{Verse 9}Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.^{Verse 10}But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?^{Verse 11}The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;^{Verse 12}So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.^{Verse 13}If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!^{Verse 14}If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.^{Verse 15}At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.^{Verse 16}For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.^{Verse 17}My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.^{Verse 18}But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;^{Verse 19}The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.^{Verse 20}You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.^{Verse 21}His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.^{Verse 22}Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.