Job 14

Job 14:1 A human born of woman is short on days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2 He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 14:3 Do open your eyes to one like this? Will you bring me into judgment against you?

Job 14:4 Who can produce something pure from something impure? No one!

Job 14:5 Since a person’s days are determined and the number of his months depends on you, and since you have set limits he cannot pass,

Job 14:6 look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

Job 14:8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump starts to die in the soil,

Job 14:9 the scent of water makes it revive and produce twigs like a sapling.

Job 14:10 But a healthy man dies and fades away; Adam expires – and where is he?

Job 14:11 As water disappears from a lake and a river becomes dry,

Job 14:12 so a person lies down never to rise again. He will not wake up until the sky is no more; they will not stir from their sleep.

Job 14:13 If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger passes. If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me.

Job 14:14 If a healthy person dies, will he come back to life? If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes.

Job 14:15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would long for the work of your hands.

Job 14:16 For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.

Job 14:17 My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

Job 14:18 But as a mountain collapses and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

Job 14:19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the topsoil from the ground, so you destroy a mortal’s hope.

Job 14:20 You completely overpower him, and he goes away; you change his appearance and send him away.

Job 14:21 If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

Job 14:22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for his throat.

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