Job 14 | ESV | STEP | Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble .

‏ Job 14

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

1 “Man who is ^aborn of a woman
is ^bfew of days and ^cfull of trouble.
2 He comes out like ^da flower and ^ewithers;
he flees like ^fa shadow and continues not.
3 And do you ^gopen your eyes on such a one
and ^hbring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring ⁱa clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
5 Since his ^jdays are determined,
and ^kthe number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6 ^llook away from him and leave him alone, ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease}
that he may enjoy, like ⁿa 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 ^oits stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out ^pbranches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and ^qwhere is he?
11 ^rAs waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till ^sthe heavens are no more he will not awake
or be ^troused out of his sleep.
13 Oh that you would ^uhide me in ^vSheol,
that you would ^wconceal me ^xuntil 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 ^yservice I would ^zwait,
till my renewal ^{▼▼Or relief} should come.
15 You would ^abcall, and I would answer you;
you would long for the ^acwork of your hands.
16 For then you would ^adnumber my steps;
you would not keep ^aewatch over my sin;
17 my transgression would be ^afsealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
18 “But the mountain falls and ^agcrumbles away,
and ^ahthe 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 ^aidoes 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.”