Job 14:1-9 ▼

1 MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

2 He comes forth like a flower, and withers and fades away; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring him into judgment with thee?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.

5 Seeing his days are determined and the number of his months are decreed, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot trespass them;

6 Turn thy face away from him, and his days will be spent like a hireling.

7 For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and its tender shoots will not cease.

8 Though its root wax old in the earth and its stock die in the ground,

9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth leaves like a plant;