Job 14:1-9 ▼

1 |A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.

2 He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn't stay long.

3 You observe this and call me to account to you.

4 |If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible.

5 If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it.

6 Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

7 There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.

8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

9 merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant.