Job 14

Revised Geneva Translation

14 “Man, who is born of woman, is of few days and full of trouble.

² “He shoots forth as a flower and is cut down. He also vanishes as a shadow, and does not continue.

³ “Yet, You open Your Eyes upon such a one and cause me to enter into judgment with You.

⁴ “Who can bring a clean thing out of filthiness? There is not one.

⁵ “Are not his days determined, the number of his months with You? You have appointed his boundaries, which he cannot pass.

⁶ “Turn from him, so that he may rest, until his day is accepted as a hireling’s.

⁷ “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will still sprout. And its branches will not cease.

⁸ “Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and its stump is dead in the ground,

⁹ “by the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

¹⁰ “But man is sick and dies. And man perishes. And where is he?

¹¹ “As the waters pass from the sea, and as the flood decays and dries up,

¹² “so man sleeps and does not rise. He shall not wake again, or be raised from his sleep, until the heavens are no more.

¹³ “Oh that You would hide me in the grave and keep me secret until Your wrath were past, would set a time for me and remember me!

¹⁴ “If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, until my relief comes.

¹⁵ “You shall call me, and I will answer You. You love the work of Your own Hands.

¹⁶ “But now, You number my steps. Do You not watch over my sins?

¹⁷ “My iniquity is sealed up in a bag. And You add to my wickedness.

¹⁸ “And surely as the mountain falls and comes to nothing, and as the rock is removed from its place,

¹⁹ “as the water breaks the stones, You overflow the things which grow in the dust of the earth. So You destroy the hope of man.

²⁰ “You always prevail against him, so that he passes away. He changes his face when You cast him away.

²¹ “And he does not know if his sons shall be honorable. Nor shall he understand concerning them, whether they shall be of low degree.

²² “But while his flesh is upon him, he shall be sorrowful. And while his soul is in him, it shall mourn.”