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

(ESV)