# Job 14 [[Job 13|←]] • [[Job 15|→]] --- ### 1 Man born of a woman of few days, and full of trouble. ### 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. ### 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? ### 4 Who can bring a clean out of an unclean? not one. ### 5 Seeing his days determined, the number of his months with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; ### 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. ### 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. ### 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; ### 9 through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. ### 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where he? ### 11 the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: ### 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. ### 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! ### 14 If a man die, shall he live all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. ### 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. ### 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? ### 17 My transgression sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. ### 18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. ### 19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. ### 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. ### 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth not of them. ### 22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.