Job 14:1-10

1"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

2He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

3And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

5Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

6look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

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.

8Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,

9yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?