Job 14:16-22 ▼

16 For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.

17 My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

18 But as a mountain collapses and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so you destroy a man’s hope.

20 You completely overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.

21 If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself. Second Series of Speeches