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Job 14 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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not even one;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>if even his life should be <i>but</i> one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed <i>him</i> for a time, and he shall by no means exceed <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, <i>though</i> as a hireling.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, <i>that</i> it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the sea wastes in <i>length of</i> time, and a river fails and is dried up.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And man that has lain down <i>in death</i> shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if a man should die, shall he live <i>again</i>, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong <i>overflow</i> a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and though his children be multiplied, he knows <i>it</i> not; and if they be few, he is not aware.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>