Job 14:1-9 ▼

1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.

2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?

4 Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing? no bodye.

5 The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde.

6 Go from him, that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for, lyke as an hireling doth.

7 For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe.

8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde:

9 Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.