Job 14:1-9 ▼

1 Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

5 Since man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

7 But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.