Job 14 · Clearspring

Job Laments the Finality of Death

¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.+ ²He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.+ ³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?+ ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.+ ⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;+ ⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.+ 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.+ ⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,+ ⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.+ ¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?+ ¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,+ ¹²so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.+ 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!+ ¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.+ ¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.+ ¹⁶But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?+ ¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.+ ¹⁸“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;+ ¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.+ ²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.+ ²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.+ ²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”+

Job Laments the Finality of Death

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