Job 14
New International Version - Job 14 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 14:1 'Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. 14:2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 14:3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment? 14:4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! 14:5 Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. 14:6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man. 14:7 'At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 14:8 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, 14:9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant. 14:10 But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more. 14:11 As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 14:12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep. 14:13 'If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me! 14:14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. 14:15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. 14:16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. 14:17 My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin. 14:18 'But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place, 14:19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope. 14:20 You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away. 14:21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it. 14:22 He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.'