Job 14
1 Man, who is born of woman, lives only a few days and is full of trouble.
Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
2 He sprouts from the ground like a flower and is cut down; he flees like a shadow and does not last.
He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
3 Do you look at any of these? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
4 Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one.
Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.
5 Man's days are determined. The number of his months is with you; you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
6 Look away from him that he may rest, so that he may enjoy his day like a hired man if he can do so.
Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
7 There can be hope for a tree; if it is cut down, it might sprout again, so that its tender stalk does not disappear.
For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
9 yet even if it only smells water, it will bud and send out branches like a plant.
Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.
10 But man dies; he becomes weak; indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he?
But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?
11 As water disappears from a lake, and as a river loses water and dries up,
As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,
12 so people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused out of their sleep.
So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.
13 Oh, that you would hide me away in Sheol away from troubles, and that you would keep me in private until your wrath is over, that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind! (Sheol h7585)
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me. (Sheol h7585)
14 If a man dies, will he live again? If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there until my release should come.
If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.
16 You would number and care for my footsteps; you would not keep track of my sin.
But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.
17 My transgression would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover up my iniquity.
Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
18 But even mountains fall and come to nothing; even rocks are moved out of their place;
And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his place:
19 the waters wear down the stones; their flooding washes away the dust of the earth. Like this, you destroy the hope of man.
As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.
20 You always defeat him, and he passes away; you change his face and send him away to die.
Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.
21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; and if they are brought low, he does not see it.
And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,
22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns for himself.
But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shall mourne.
