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Job 14 📜 📕 ↷
Job Laments the Finality of Death
1 MAN born of woman, living a short time, is replenished with many miseries.📜💬📚
2 Who as a flower cometh forth and is destroyed, and flyeth as a shadow, and never abideth in the same state.📜💬📚
3 And doest thou count it a worthy thing to open thine eyes upon such an one, and to bring him with thee into judgment?📜💬📚
4 Who can make clean him that is conceived of unclean seed? Is it not thou which only art?📜💬📚
5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee, thou hast appointed his limits which can not be passed.📜💬📚
6 Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his day wished for come, even as the hired man's.📜💬📚
7 A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it waxeth green again, and the boughs thereof spring.📜💬📚
8 If his root be old in the earth, and the trunk thereof be dead in the dust,📜💬📚
9 At the scent of water it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.📜💬📚
10 But when man shall be dead, and naked, and consumed, where is he I pray?📜💬📚
11 As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and a river made empty should be dried up.📜💬📚
12 So man when he is asleep shall not rise again, till heaven perish, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.📜💬📚
13 Who will grant me this, that in hell thou protect me, and hide me till thy fury pass, and appoint me a time, wherein thou wilt remember me?📜💬📚
14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? All the days, in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change do come.📜💬📚
15 Thou shalt call me, and I shall answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach thy right hand.📜💬📚
16 Thou in deed hast numbered my steps: but thou wilt spare my sins.📜💬📚
17 Thou hast sealed my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured mine iniquity.📜💬📚
18 A mountain falling slideth down, and a rock is removed out of his place.📜💬📚
19 Waters make stones hollow, and with inundation, the earth by little and little is consumed: and men therefore thou shalt destroy in like manner.📜💬📚
20 Thou hast strengthened him a little, that he might pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him forth.📜💬📚
21 Whether his children shall be noble, or unnoble, he shall not understand.📜💬📚
22 But yet his flesh whilst he shall live shall have sorrow, and his soul shall mourn upon himself.📜💬📚
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