Job 14

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1. 1Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2. 2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down. He flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
3. 3And do you open your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
4. 4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5. 5Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass —
6. 6turn from him so that he may rest, until he accomplishes, like a hired worker, his day.
7. 7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.
8. 8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
9. 9yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.
10. 10But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
11. 11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up,
12. 12so man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13. 13Oh that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14. 14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, until my change comes.
15. 15You shall call, and I will answer you. You will have a desire for the work of your hands.
16. 16For now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?
17. 17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
18. 18And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
19. 19The waters wear the stones; you wash away the things that grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
20. 20You prevail forever against him, and he passes away. You change his face and send him away.
21. 21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
22. 22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.