^14:1 Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. ^14:2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow and does not continue.

    ^14:3 And do you open your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with you? ^14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. ^14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, ^14:6 look away from him, that he may rest, till he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day. ^14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the offshoots of it will not cease. ^14:8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth and the trunk of it dies in the ground, ^14:9 yet through the scent of water it will bud and put forth limbs like a plant. ^14:10 But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he? ^14:11 As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes away and dries up, ^14:12 so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. ^14:13 O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!

    ^14:14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come. ^14:15 You would call and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands. ^14:16 But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?

    ^14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and you fasten up my iniquity. ^14:18 But the falling mountain comes to nothing and the rock is removed out of its place.

    ^14:19 The waters wear the stones. The overflowing of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. ^14:20 You prevail forever against him and he passes. You change his countenance and send him away. ^14:21 His sons come to honor and he does not know it and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them. ^14:22But his flesh upon him has pain and his soul within him mourns.