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The Book of Job
Chapter 14
Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
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Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. |
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Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. |
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And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? |
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Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art? |
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The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. |
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Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. |
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A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. |
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If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: |
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At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. |
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But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? |
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As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up; |
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So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. |
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Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me? |
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Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. |
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Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. |
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Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. |
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Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity. |
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A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. |
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Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. |
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Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. |
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Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. |
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But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him. |
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