Job Chapter 14    

¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble.
  ²He comes forth like a flower and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
  ³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
  ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  ⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
  ⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
 

⁷“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
  ⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
  ⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
  ¹⁰But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man breathes his last breath, and where is he?
  ¹¹As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes and dries up,
  ¹²so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
 

¹³“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  ¹⁴If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
  ¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
  ¹⁶But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?
  ¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
 

¹⁸“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
  ¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
  ²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face and send him away.
  ²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
  ²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul inside him mourns.”