{"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/drb/job/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:58:46.360Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":15,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art? "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up: "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me? "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 14 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 14](https://primebible.com/drb/job/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/14 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}