Job 14:1-9 ▼

1 “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

2 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

3 And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

5 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

6 look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a 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 its stump die in the soil,

9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.