Job 14:1–10
“Mortals, born of woman,s
are of few dayst and full of trouble.u
2 They spring up like flowersv and wither away;w
like fleeting shadows,x they do not endure.y
3 Do you fix your eye on them?z
Will you bring thema before you for judgment?a
4 Who can bring what is pureb from the impure?c
No one!d
5 A person’s days are determined;e
you have decreed the number of his monthsf
and have set limits he cannot exceed.g
6 So look away from him and let him alone,h
till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.i
7 “At least there is hope for a tree:j
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shootsk will not fail.l
8 Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stumpm die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of watern it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant.o
10 But a man dies and is laid low;p
he breathes his last and is no more.q