Thematic Bible
Job 14:1 (show verse)
"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
Job 14:2 (show verse)
He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
Job 14:3 (show verse)
Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
Job 14:4 (show verse)
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
Job 14:5 (show verse)
Since man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
Job 14:6 (show verse)
Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
Job 14:7 (show verse)
"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
Job 14:8 (show verse)
Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,
Job 14:9 (show verse)
at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.
Job 14:10 (show verse)
But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?
Job 14:11 (show verse)
As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,
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Job 14:12 (show verse)
so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
Job 14:13 (show verse)
"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
Job 14:14 (show verse)
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
Job 14:15 (show verse)
You will call and I -- I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.
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Job 14:16 (show verse)
"Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.
Job 14:17 (show verse)
My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
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Job 14:18 (show verse)
But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,
Job 14:19 (show verse)
as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.
Job 14:20 (show verse)
You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.
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Job 14:21 (show verse)
If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
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Job 14:22 (show verse)
Only his flesh has pain for himself, and he mourns for himself."