Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

14 “Man who is kborn of a woman

is lfew of days and mfull of trouble.

2  He comes out like na flower and owithers;

he flees like pa shadow and continues not.

3  And do you qopen your eyes on such a one

and rbring me into judgment with you?

4  Who can bring sa clean thing out of an unclean?

There is not one.

5  Since his tdays are determined,

and uthe number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

6  vlook away from him and leave him alone,1

that he may enjoy, like wa hired hand, his day.

7  “For there is hope for a tree,

if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,

and that its shoots will not cease.

8  Though its root grow old in the earth,

and xits stump die in the soil,

9  yet at the scent of water it will bud

and put out ybranches like a young plant.

10  But a man dies and is laid low;

man breathes his last, and zwhere is he?

11  aAs waters fail from a lake

and a river wastes away and dries up,

12  so a man lies down and rises not again;

till bthe heavens are no more he will not awake

or be croused out of his sleep.