ACV - Job - 14

14:1  Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

14:2  He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

14:3  And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?

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

14:5  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

14:6  look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

14:7  For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.

14:8  Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,

14:9  yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

14:10  But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

14:11  As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,

14:12  so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

14:13  O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

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

14:15  Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.

14:16  But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?

14:17  My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.

14:18  But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.

14:19  The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

14:20  Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.

14:21  His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

14:22  But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.