Job 14:1-10

1“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

7“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

10But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he?