Job 14

Job Chapter 14 ESV

1Job entreateth God's forbearance in respect of the shortness and troubles of life, 5and of the certainty of death, which cutteth short man's hope: 13he wisheth for some place of shelter, where to wait his appointed change. 18All created beings are subject to corruption.
1 “Man who is 1born of a woman is 2few of days and 3full of trouble.
2 He comes out like 1a flower and 2withers; he flees like 3a shadow and continues not.
3 And do you 1open your eyes on such a one and 2bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring 1a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
5 Since his 1days are determined, and 2the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6 1look away from him and leave him alone,a that he may enjoy, like 2a hired hand, his day.
7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and 1its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out 1branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and 1where is he?
11 1As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again; till 1the heavens are no more he will not awake or be 2roused out of his sleep.
13 Oh that you would 1hide me in 2Sheol, that you would 3conceal me 4until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my 1service I would 2wait, till my renewala should come.
15 You would 1call, and I would answer you; you would long for the 2work of your hands.
16 For then you would 1number my steps; you would not keep 2watch over my sin;
17 my transgression would be 1sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
18 “But the mountain falls and 1crumbles away, and 2the rock is removed from its place;
19 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.
20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he 1does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”
Job 14

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