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