{"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/web/job/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:02.326Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":15,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"|But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 14 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 14](https://primebible.com/web/job/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/14 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}