Job 14

¹“Man, who is born of woman,

²Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away;

³Do You open Your eyes to one like this?

⁴Who can bring out clean from unclean?

⁵Since his days are determined

⁶look away from him and let him rest,

⁷For there is hope for a tree:

⁸If its roots grow old in the ground

⁹at the scent of water it will bud

¹⁰But a man dies and is laid low;

¹¹As water disappears from the sea

¹²so a man lies down

¹³If only You would hide me in Sheol

¹⁴When a man dies, will he live again?

¹⁵You will call, and I will answer;

¹⁶For then You would count my steps,

¹⁷My transgression would be sealed in a bag,

¹⁸But as a mountain erodes and crumbles

¹⁹as water wears away the stones

²⁰You forever overpower him, and he passes on;

²¹If his sons receive honor, he does not know it;

²²He feels only the pain of his own body