14:1 For a mortal born of a woman [is] short
lived, and full of wrath.
14:2 Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a
shadow, and cannot continue.
14:3 Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into
judgment before thee?
14:4 For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
14:5 if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months
are numbered by him: thou hast appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by
no means exceed [it].
14:6 Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life,
[though] as a hireling.
14:7 For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, [that] it
shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
14:8 For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in
the rock;
14:9 it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as
one newly planted.
14:10 But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen,
he is no more.
14:11 For the sea wastes in [length of] time, and a river fails and is dried
up.
14:12 And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again
till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
14:13 For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until
thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou
wouldest remember me!
14:14 For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished
the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
14:15 Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou
reject the work of thine hands.
14:16 But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape
thee?
14:17 An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I
have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
14:18 And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock
shall be worn out of its place.
14:19 The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a
heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.
14:20 Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face
against him, and sendest him away;
14:21 and though his children be multiplied, he knows [it] not; and if they
be few, he is not aware.
14:22 But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns. |
14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few
days and full of trouble.
14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a
shadow, and continueth not.
14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into
judgment with thee?
14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee,
thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an
hireling, his day.
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.
14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die
in the ground;
14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like
a plant.
14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
where is he?
14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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.
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!
14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time
will I wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to
the work of thine hands.
14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine
iniquity.
14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is
removed out of his place.
14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow
out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest
his countenance, and sendest him away.
14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall
mourn. |