{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:00:29.688Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":15,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, —"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 14 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 14](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/14 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}