Job 14 (NET)

Job 14:1¹“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:2²He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:3³Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:4⁴Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:5⁵Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:6⁶Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:7⁷“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:8⁸Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:9⁹at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:10¹⁰But man dies and is powerless; he expires—and where is he?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:11¹¹As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:12¹²so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:13¹³“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!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:14¹⁴If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:15¹⁵You will call and I —I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:16¹⁶“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:17¹⁷My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:18¹⁸But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:19¹⁹as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:20²⁰You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:21²¹If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 14:22²²His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s