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job 14
1 - "Man, who is born of a woman,is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 - He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
3 - Do you open your eyes on such a one,and bring me into judgment with you?
4 - Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?Not one.
5 - Seeing his days are determined,the number of his months is with you,and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
6 - Look away from him, that he may rest,until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7 - "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.
8 - Though its root grows old in the earth,and its stock dies in the ground,
9 - yet through the scent of water it will bud,and sprout boughs like a plant.
10 - But man dies, and is laid low.Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 - As the waters fail from the sea,and the river wastes and dries up,
12 - 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.
13 - "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!
14 - If a man dies, shall he live again?All the days of my warfare would I wait,until my release should come.
15 - You would call, and I would answer you.You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
16 - But now you count my steps.Don't you watch over my sin?
17 - My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.You fasten up my iniquity.
18 - "But the mountain falling comes to nothing.The rock is removed out of its place;
19 - The waters wear the stones.The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.So you destroy the hope of man.
20 - You forever prevail against him, and he departs.You change his face, and send him away.
21 - His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it.They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
22 - But his flesh on him has pain,and his soul within him mourns."
