Job 14:1-9 ▼

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

2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

3 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? Not one.

5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.

6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.