Job 14  Legacy Standard Bible

⁷ “For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will change back sprouting again,
And its shoots will not cease.
⁸ Though its roots grow old in the ground
And its stump dies in the dry soil,
⁹ At the scent of water it will flourish
And put forth sprigs like a plant.
¹⁰ But ^(J)man dies and lies prostrate.
Man ^(K)breathes his last, and where is he?
¹¹ As ^(L)water ^[d]evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,
¹² So ^(M)man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens are no longer,
^[e]He will not awake nor be aroused out of ^[f]his sleep.

¹³ “Oh that You would conceal me in Sheol,
That You would hide me ^(N)until Your anger returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my labor I will wait
Until my change comes.
¹⁵ You will call, and I will answer You;
You will long for ^(O)the work of Your hands.
¹⁶ For now You ^(P)number my steps,
You do not ^(Q)keep watch over my sin.
¹⁷ My transgression is ^(R)sealed up in a bag,
And You ^[g]cover up my iniquity.

¹⁸ “But the falling mountain ^[h]crumbles away,
And the rock moves from its place;
¹⁹ Water wears away stones;
Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;
So You ^(S)make man’s hope perish.
²⁰ You forever overpower him and he ^(T)goes away;
You alter his appearance and send him away.
²¹ His sons achieve honor, but ^(U)he does not know it;
Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it.
²² But his flesh pains him,
And he mourns only for himself.”