| 章 |
| 14:1 |
'Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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| 14:2 |
He comes forth like a flower, and withers;he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
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| 14:3 |
And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
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| 14:4 |
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
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| 14:5 |
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
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| 14:6 |
look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
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| 14:7 |
'For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
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| 14:8 |
Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
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| 14:9 |
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
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| 14:10 |
But man dies, and is laid low;man breathes his last, and where is he?
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| 14:11 |
As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
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| 14:12 |
so man lies down and rises not again;till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
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| 14:13 |
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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| 14:14 |
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
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| 14:15 |
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee;thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
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| 14:16 |
For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
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| 14:17 |
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
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| 14:18 |
'But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
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| 14:19 |
the waters wear away the stones;the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;so thou destroyest the hope of man.
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| 14:20 |
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes;thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
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| 14:21 |
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
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| 14:22 |
He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.'
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