Job 14
1 For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath.
Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
2 Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.
As a flower, he cometh forth—and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before you?
And yet upon such a one as this, hast thou opened thine eye? And, him, wouldst thou bring into judgment with thee?
4 For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
5 if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].
If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.
6 Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.
Look sway from him, that he may rest, Till he shall pay off, as a hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
Though there is—for a tree—hope, —if it should be cut down, that, again, it will grow, and, the tender branch thereof, will not cease;
8 For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:
9 it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
10 But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
11 For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.
Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;
12 And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.
13 For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me! (Sheol h7585)
Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me: (Sheol h7585)
14 For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: —
15 Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.
Thou shouldst call, and, I, would answer thee, —For the work of thine own hand, thou shouldst long.
16 But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?
For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:
17 An you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
18 And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:
19 The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.
Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:
20 You drive him to an end, and he is gone: you set your face against him, and send him away;
Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.
21 and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
His sons, come to honour, and he knoweth it not, Or they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not of them.
22 But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
But, his flesh, for himself, is in pain, and, his soul, for himself, doth mourn.
