AB - Job - 14

14:1  For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath.

14:2  Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

14:3  Have You not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before You?

14:4  For who shall be pure from uncleanness? Not even one;

14:5  if even his life should be but one day upon the earth, and his months are numbered by him: You have appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it.

14:6  Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.

14:7  For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.

14:8  For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock,

14:9  it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.

14:10  But a man that has died is utterly gone, and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

14:11  For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails, and is dried up.

14:12  And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

14:13  Oh that You had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until Your wrath should cease, and You should set me a time in which You would remember me!

14:14  For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again.

14:15  Then shall You call, and I will answer You: but do not reject the work of Your hands.

14:16  But You have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape You.

14:17  And You have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

14:18  And truly a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.

14:19  The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth; so You destroy the hope of man.

14:20  You drive him to an end, and he is gone: You set Your face against him, and send him away;

14:21  and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

14:22  But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.