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Job 14 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:2

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

Job 14:3

Job 14:3Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?

Job 14:4

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

Job 14:5

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

Job 14:6

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

Job 14:7

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

Job 14:8

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

Job 14:9

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

Job 14:10

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

Job 14:11

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

Job 14:12

Job 14:12And 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.

Job 14:13

Job 14:13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

Job 14:14

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

Job 14:15

Job 14:15Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.

Job 14:16

Job 14:16But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?

Job 14:17

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

Job 14:18

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

Job 14:19

Job 14:19The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

Job 14:20

Job 14:20Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;

Job 14:21

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

Job 14:22

Job 14:22But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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