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Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

 “Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.
² He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
³ And do you open your eyes on such a one
and bring me into judgment with you?
⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
⁵ Since his days are determined,
and the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
⁶ look away from him and leave him alone,^[a]
that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

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.
⁸ Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,
⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.
¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?
¹¹ As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
¹² so 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.
¹³ Oh 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!
¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait,
till my renewal^[b] should come.
¹⁵ You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
¹⁶ For then you would number my steps;
you would not keep watch over my sin;
¹⁷ my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.

¹⁸ “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and the rock is removed from its place;
¹⁹ the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so 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 does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
²² He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself.”

Footnotes:

1. Job 14:6 Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease
2. Job 14:14 Or relief

Cross references:

1. Job 14:1 : ch. 15:14; 25:4; Matt. 11:11
2. Job 14:1 : ch. 10:20; 16:22; Gen. 47:9; Ps. 39:5; 89:47
3. Job 14:1 : See ch. 5:7
4. Job 14:2 : Ps. 103:15; Isa. 40:6, 7; James 1:10; 1 Pet. 1:24
5. Job 14:2 : Ps. 37:2; 90:6
6. Job 14:2 : See ch. 8:9; 17:7; Ps. 109:23
7. Job 14:3 : [Ps. 8:4; 144:3]
8. Job 14:3 : ch. 22:4; Ps. 143:2
9. Job 14:4 : ch. 15:14; [Ps. 51:5; John 3:6]
10. Job 14:5 : [ch. 7:1; Ps. 39:4]
11. Job 14:5 : ch. 21:21
12. Job 14:6 : ch. 7:19
13. Job 14:6 : ch. 7:1
14. Job 14:8 : Isa. 11:1
15. Job 14:9 : [ch. 29:19]
16. Job 14:10 : ch. 29:7
17. Job 14:11 : Isa. 19:5
18. Job 14:12 : Deut. 11:21; Ps. 89:29; [Ps. 72:5; Matt. 5:18]
19. Job 14:12 : [John 11:11]
20. Job 14:13 : [Ps. 27:5; 31:20]
21. Job 14:13 : See ch. 21:13
22. Job 14:13 : [Ps. 27:5; 31:20]
23. Job 14:13 : [Isa. 26:20]
24. Job 14:14 : ch. 7:1
25. Job 14:14 : ch. 13:15
26. Job 14:15 : ch. 13:22
27. Job 14:15 : See ch. 10:3
28. Job 14:16 : ch. 31:4; 34:21
29. Job 14:16 : [ch. 10:6]
30. Job 14:17 : Deut. 32:34; [Hos. 13:12]
31. Job 14:18 : Isa. 34:4
32. Job 14:18 : ch. 18:4
33. Job 14:21 : [Eccles. 9:5]