Job 14
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
As a flower, he cometh forth—and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
And yet upon such a one as this, hast thou opened thine eye? And, him, wouldst thou bring into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not 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 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 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
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 if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
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 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry 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.
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 “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)
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 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: —
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for 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 now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed 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. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So 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 forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
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 on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”
But, his flesh, for himself, is in pain, and, his soul, for himself, doth mourn.
