Book Job 13

The Book of Job

Chapter 14

1: Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

2: He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

3: And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

4: Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5: Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that hecannot pass;

6: Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

7: For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branchthereof will not cease.

8: Though 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.

10: But 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:

12: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

13: O 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!

14: If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

15: Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

16: For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18: And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

19: The 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.

20: Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

21: His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22: But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
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