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Job 14

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

14:1

Man that is born of a woman is , and full of trouble.

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14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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14:3

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

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14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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14:6

Turn from him, that he may , till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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14:7

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

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14:8

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

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14:9

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

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14:10

But man dieth, and : yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

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14:11

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

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14:12

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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14:13

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

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14:15

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

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14:16

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

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14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

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14:18

And surely the mountain falling to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

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14:19

The waters wear the stones: thou the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

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14:20

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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14:21

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

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14:22

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

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