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href="../job/13.htm" title="Job 13">◄</a> Job 14 <a href="../job/15.htm" title="Job 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Man that is born of a woman</div><div class="po2">Is of few days, and full of trouble.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth;</div><div class="po2">He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such a one,</div><div class="po2">And bringest me into judgment with Thee?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Seeing his days are determined,</div><div class="po2">The number of his months is with Thee,</div><div class="po2">And Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Look away from him, that he may rest,</div><div class="po2">Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For there is hope of a tree,</div><div class="po2">If it be cut down, that it will sprout again,</div><div class="po2">And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,</div><div class="po2">And the stock thereof die in the ground;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Yet through the scent of water it will bud,</div><div class="po2">And put forth boughs like a plant.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But man dieth, and lieth low;</div><div class="po2">Yea, man perisheth, and where is he?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As the waters fail from the sea,</div><div class="po2">And the river is drained dry;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So man lieth down and riseth not;</div><div class="po2">Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,</div><div class="po2">Nor be roused out of their sleep.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Oh that Thou wouldest hide me in the nether-world,</div><div class="po2">That Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past,</div><div class="po2">That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If a man die, may he live again?</div><div class="po2">All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee;</div><div class="po2">Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But now Thou numberest my steps,</div><div class="po2">Thou dost not even wait for my sin;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My transgression is sealed up in a bag,</div><div class="po2">And Thou heapest up mine iniquity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away,</div><div class="po2">And the rock is removed out of its place;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The waters wear the stones;</div><div class="po2">The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth;</div><div class="po2">So Thou destroyest the hope of man.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth;</div><div class="po2">Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not;</div><div class="po2">And they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But his flesh grieveth for him,</div><div class="po2">And his soul mourneth over him.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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