CHAP. XIV.
Job declares the shortness of
man's days: and professes
his belief of a resurrection.
1 Man born of a woman,
living for short time,
is filled with many miseries.
2 Who cometh forth like
a flower, and is destroyed, and
fleeth as a shadow, and never
continueth in the same state.
3 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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4 Who can make him
clean that is conceived of unclean
seed? is it not thou who
only art?
5 The days of man are
short, and the number of his
months is with thee: thou hast
appointed his bounds which
cannot be passed.
6 Depart a little from him,
that he may rest, until his
wished for day come, as that
of the hireling.
7 A tree hath hope: if it
be cut, it groweth green again,
and the boughs thereof
sprout.
8 If its root be old in the
earth, and its stock be dead
in the dust.
9 At the scent of water it
shall spring, and bring forth
leaves, as when it was first
planted.
10 But man when he shall
be dead, and stripped and
consumed, I pray you where
is he?
11 As if the waters should
depart out of the sea, and an
emptied river should be dried
up.
12 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.
13 Who will grant me this,
that thou mayst protect me
note in hell, and hide me, till
thy wrath pass, and appoint
me a time, when thou wilt
remember me?
14 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.
15 Thou shalt call me, and
I will answer thee: to the
work of thy hands thou shalt
reach out thy right hand.
16 Thou indeed hast numbered
my steps, but spare my
sins.
17 Thou hast sealed up my
offences as it were in a bag,
but hast cured my iniquity.
18 A mountain falling cometh
to nought, and a rock
is removed out of its place.
19 Waters wear away the
stones, and with washing the
ground by little and little is
washed away: so in like manner
thou shalt destroy man.
20 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.
21 Whether his children
come to honour or dishonour,
he shall not understand.
22 But yet his flesh, while
he shall live, shall have pain,
and his soul shall mourn over
him.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
