Job 14

CHAPTER 14 Life Is Short and Full of Wrath

1 For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived and full of wrath. 2 Or as the flower blooming he falls off; and he runs away as a shadow, and in no way stands. 3 Have you not also [²an account of this one ¹made], and made this one to enter before you in judgment? 4 For who will be clean from filth? but no one; 5 if even [²be one ³day ¹his existence] upon the earth, [³are counted ¹and ²his months] by you. [²for ³a time ¹You appointed him], and in no way shall he pass beyond. 6 Separate from him! that he should be still, and he shall think well of the existence as the hireling. 7 For there is [²for a tree ¹hope]; for if it should be cut down, still it will bloom again, and its tender branch in no way shall fail; 8 for if [²should grow old ³in ⁴the earth ¹its root], [⁴in ¹and ⁵the rock ³should come to an end ²its trunk]; 9 from the scent of water it shall bloom, and shall produce a harvest as if newly planted. 10 But a man coming to an end is undone; [³falling ¹and ²a mortal] is no longer. 11 For in time [²is depleted ¹a sea], and a river being made desolate is dried up. 12 But man going to sleep shall certainly not rise up, until whenever the heaven in no way shall be sewn together, and they shall not wake up from their sleep. 13 For ought in Hades you guarded me, and hid me until whenever [³should cease ¹your ²anger]; and should have ordered for me a time in which [²mention ³of me ¹you shall make]. 14 For if [²should die ¹a man], shall he live again having completed the days of his existence? I shall wait until [²again ¹I should exist]. 15 Then you shall call, and I will hearken to you; but the works of your hands do not undo. 16 But you counted my practices, and in no way shall there go by you even one of my sins. 17 And you set a seal upon my lawless deeds in a bag, and marked if in anything [²unwillingly ¹I violated]. 18 And moreover a mountain falling shall fall into ruin, and a rock shall be worn old from out of its place. 19 [³stones smooth ²ground ¹Waters], and [²flooded ¹waters] the steeps of the embankment of the earth; and [²the endurance ³of man ¹you destroyed]. 20 You thrust him through unto the end, and he is undone; you set [²against him ¹your face], and send him out. 21 And though there are many [²being born ¹of his sons], he knows it not; if also [²few ¹they become], he knows not. 22 But his flesh aches, and his soul mourns.