2.6 KiB
2.6 KiB
Job 14
- “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
- He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
- And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
- Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
- Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
- look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
- “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
- Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
- yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
- But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
- As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,
- 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.
- 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!
- If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
- You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
- For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
- my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
- “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
- the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.
- You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
- His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
- He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”
(ESV)