Job 14
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
For a mortal born of a woman [is] short lived, and full of wrath.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement with you?
Hast you not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgement before you?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
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].
6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.
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.
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.
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried up.
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
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.
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! (Sheol h7585)
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)
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
An you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
You drive him to an end, and he is gone: you set your face against him, and send him away;
21 His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
