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Job 14,1-22
Chapter XIIII.
1 Iob intreateth God for fauour, by the shortnes of life, and certainty of death. 7 Though life once lost be irrecouerable, yet he waiteth for his change. 16 By sinne the Creature is subiect to corruption.
1 Man that is borne of a woman, is [ Hebrew: short of dayes.] of few dayes, and full of trouble.
2 [ Psa_102:12; Psa_103:15; Psa_144:4; Job_8:9.] Hee commeth forth like a flower, and is cut downe: he fleeth also, as a shaddow and continueth not.
3 And doest thou open thine eies vpon such an one, and bringest me into iudgment with thee?
4 [ Hebrew: who will giue?] Who [ Psa_51:5.] can bring a cleane thing out of an vncleane? not one.
5 [ Job_7:1.] Seeing his daies are determined, the number of his moneths are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot passe.
6 Turne from him that hee may [ Hebrew: cease.] rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hircling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut downe, that it will sprout againe, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
[The breuitie of mans life.]
8 Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground:
9 Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.
10 But man dyeth, and [ Hebrew: is weakened, or cut off.] wasteth away; yea, man giueth vp the ghost, and where is hee?
11 As the waters faile from the sea, and the floud decayeth and dryeth vp:
12 So man lyeth downe, and riseth not, till the heauens be no more, they shall not awake; nor bee raised out of their sleepe.
13 O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.
14 If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt haue a desire to the worke of thine hands.
16 [ Psa_136:2 .] For nowe thou numbrest my steppes, doest thou not watch ouer my sinne?
17 My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.
18 And surely the mountaine falling [ Hebrew: fadeth.] commeth to nought: and the rocke is remoued out of his place.
19 The waters weare the stones, thou [ Hebrew: ouerflowest.] washest away the things which growe out of the dust of the earth, and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou preuailest for euer against him, and hee passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21 His sonnes come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought lowe, but he perceiueth it not of them.
22 But his flesh vpon him shall haue paine, and his soule within him shall mourne.