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