Job 14

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.SelectedJob 14:1Ask

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.SelectedJob 14:2Ask

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?SelectedJob 14:3Ask

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.SelectedJob 14:4Ask

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;SelectedJob 14:5Ask

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.SelectedJob 14:6Ask

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.SelectedJob 14:7Ask

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;SelectedJob 14:8Ask

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.SelectedJob 14:9Ask

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?SelectedJob 14:10Ask

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:SelectedJob 14:11Ask

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.SelectedJob 14:12Ask

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!SelectedJob 14:13Ask

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.SelectedJob 14:14Ask

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.SelectedJob 14:15Ask

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?SelectedJob 14:16Ask

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.SelectedJob 14:17Ask

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.SelectedJob 14:18Ask

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.SelectedJob 14:19Ask

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.SelectedJob 14:20Ask

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.SelectedJob 14:21Ask

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.SelectedJob 14:22Ask

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