Job 14 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:2

Job 14:2He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Job 14:3

Job 14:3And do you open your eyes on such a one
and bring me into judgment with you?

Job 14:4

Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.

Job 14:5

Job 14:5Since his days are determined,
and the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Job 14:6

Job 14:6look away from him and leave him alone,[fn]
that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Job 14:7

Job 14:7“For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.

Job 14:8

Job 14:8Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,

Job 14:9

Job 14:9yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.

Job 14:10

Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 14:11

Job 14:11As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,

Job 14:12

Job 14:12so a man lies down and rises not again;
till the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be roused out of his sleep.

Job 14:13

Job 14:13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 14:14

Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait,
till my renewal[fn] should come.

Job 14:15

Job 14:15You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.

Job 14:16

Job 14:16For then you would number my steps;
you would not keep watch over my sin;

Job 14:17

Job 14:17my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.

Job 14:18

Job 14:18“But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and the rock is removed from its place;

Job 14:19

Job 14:19the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.

Job 14:20

Job 14:20You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.

Job 14:21

Job 14:21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

Job 14:22

Job 14:22He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself.”

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ESV Footnotes

(14:6)

Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease

(14:14)

Or relief

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