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is it not thou who only art?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>