Job 14

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

1 "Man who is *ch. 15:14;25:4;Matt. 11:11born of a woman

is *ch. 10:20;16:22;Gen. 47:9;Ps. 39:5;89:47few of days and *See ch. 5:7full of trouble.

2 He comes out like *Ps. 103:15;Isa. 40:6,7;James 1:10;1 Pet. 1:24a flower and *Ps. 37:2;90:6withers;

he flees like *See ch. 8:9;17:7;Ps. 109:23a shadow and continues not.

3 And do you *[Ps. 8:4;144:3] open your eyes on such a one

and *ch. 22:4;Ps. 143:2bring me into judgment with you?

4 Who can bring *ch. 15:14;[Ps. 51:5;John 3:6]a clean thing out of an unclean?

There is not one.

5 Since his *[ch. 7:1;Ps. 39:4] days are determined,

and *ch. 21:21the number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

6 *ch. 7:19look away from him and leave him alone,*14:6 Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease

that he may enjoy, like *ch. 7:1a 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 *Isa. 11:1its stump die in the soil,

9 yet at the scent of water it will bud

and put out *[ch. 29:19]branches like a young plant.

10 But a man dies and is laid low;

man breathes his last, and *ch. 29:7where is he?

11 *Isa. 19:5As waters fail from a lake

and a river wastes away and dries up,

12 so a man lies down and rises not again;

till *Deut. 11:21;Ps. 89:29;[Ps. 72:5;Matt. 5:18] the heavens are no more he will not awake

or be *[John 11:11]roused out of his sleep.

13 Oh that you would *[Ps. 27:5;31:20] hide me in *See ch. 21:13Sheol,

that you would *[Ps. 27:5;31:20] conceal me *[Isa. 26:20]until 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 *ch. 7:1service I would *ch. 13:15wait,

till my renewal*14:14 Or relief should come.

15 You would *ch. 13:22call, and I would answer you;

you would long for the *See ch. 10:3work of your hands.

16 For then you would *ch. 31:4;34:21number my steps;

you would not keep *[ch. 10:6]watch over my sin;

17 my transgression would be *Deut. 32:34;[Hos. 13:12]sealed up in a bag,

and you would cover over my iniquity.

18 "But the mountain falls and *Isa. 34:4crumbles away,

and *ch. 18:4the 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 *[Eccles. 9:5]does 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."