Job 14:1 (WEB)
"Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:2 (WEB)
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Job 14:3 (WEB)
Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

Job 14:4 (WEB)
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Job 14:5 (WEB)
Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

Job 14:6 (WEB)
Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Job 14:7 (WEB)
"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.

Job 14:8 (WEB)
Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;

Job 14:9 (WEB)
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

Job 14:10 (WEB)
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:11 (WEB)
As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,

Job 14:12 (WEB)
So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

Job 14:13 (WEB)
"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!

Job 14:14 (WEB)
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Until my release should come.

Job 14:15 (WEB)
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

Job 14:16 (WEB)
But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

Job 14:17 (WEB)
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

Job 14:18 (WEB)
"But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;

Job 14:19 (WEB)
The waters wear the stones; The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of man.

Job 14:20 (WEB)
You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.

Job 14:21 (WEB)
His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it; They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

Job 14:22 (WEB)
But his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns."
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