AFV2020 - Job - 14

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

14:2  He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

14:3  And do You open Your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with You?

14:4  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

14:5  For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his limits so that he cannot pass;

14:6  Look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

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

14:8  Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,

14:9  Yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

14:10  But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?

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

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

14:13  O that You will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me.

14:14  If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time in the grave I will wait, until my change comes.

14:15  You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall have the desire for the work of Your hands.

14:16  For now You number my steps; but do You not watch over my sin?

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

14:18  And as surely as a falling mountain crumbles away, and the rock moves out of its place;

14:19  As the waters wear away the stones, and the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; so You destroy the hope of man.

14:20  You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his countenance, and send him away.

14:21  His sons come to honor him, but he knows it not; they are brought low, but he does not perceive it.

14:22  But his flesh is pained within himself; and his soul mourns for himself."