en_cepher - Job 14 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

² He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

³ And do you open your eyes upon such 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 are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

⁶ Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁷ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

⁸ Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

⁹ Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

¹⁰ But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up his ruach, and where is he?

¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:

¹² So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

¹³ O that you would hide me in She'ol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴ If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

¹⁵ You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁶ For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?

¹⁷ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.

¹⁸ And surely the mountain falling comes to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

¹⁹ The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.

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

²¹ His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

²² But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.