Job 14

1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.Cross-references: Gen 47:9 · Job 5:7 · Job 7:1 · Job 7:6 · Job 9:25 · Job 15:14 · +6 more

2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:15 · Job 8:9 · Job 9:25 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 92:7 · Ps 92:12 · +8 more

3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?Cross-references: Job 7:17 · Job 9:19 · Job 9:32 · Job 13:25 · Job 13:27 · Ps 8:4 · +3 more

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.Cross-references: Gen 5:3 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · Ps 51:5 · Ps 90:5 · Luke 1:35 · +4 more

5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.Cross-references: Job 7:1 · Job 12:10 · Job 14:14 · Job 21:21 · Job 23:13 · Ps 39:4 · +12 more

6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.Cross-references: Job 7:1 · Job 7:16 · Job 7:19 · Job 10:20 · Ps 39:13 · Matt 20:1

7“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.Cross-references: Job 14:14 · Job 19:10 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 27:6 · Dan 4:15 · Dan 4:23

8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,Cross-references: Isa 26:19 · John 12:24 · 1Cor 15:36

9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.Cross-references: Ezek 17:3 · Ezek 17:22 · Ezek 19:10 · Rom 11:17

10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?Cross-references: Gen 49:33 · Job 3:11 · Job 7:7 · Job 10:18 · Job 11:20 · Job 14:12 · +6 more

11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,Cross-references: Job 6:15 · Isa 19:5 · Jer 15:18

12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.Cross-references: Job 3:13 · Job 7:21 · Job 10:21 · Job 19:25 · Job 30:23 · Ps 102:26 · +17 more

13“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!Cross-references: Gen 8:1 · Job 3:17 · Ps 106:4 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 26:20 · Isa 57:1 · +4 more

14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.Cross-references: Job 7:1 · Job 13:15 · Job 14:5 · Job 19:25 · Job 42:16 · Ps 27:14 · +12 more

15You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.Cross-references: Job 7:21 · Job 10:3 · Job 10:8 · Job 13:22 · Ps 50:4 · Ps 138:8 · +3 more

16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?Cross-references: Job 10:6 · Job 10:14 · Job 13:27 · Job 31:4 · Job 33:11 · Job 34:21 · +4 more

17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.Cross-references: Deut 32:34 · Job 21:19 · Hos 13:12

18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.Cross-references: Job 18:4 · Ps 102:25 · Isa 40:12 · Isa 41:15 · Isa 54:10 · Isa 64:1 · +5 more

19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Gen 7:21 · Job 7:6 · Job 19:10 · Job 27:8 · Ps 30:6 · +2 more

20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.Cross-references: Job 2:12 · Job 14:14 · Eccl 8:8 · Lam 4:8

21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:20 · Ps 39:6 · Eccl 2:18 · Eccl 9:5 · Isa 39:7 · Isa 63:16

22But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”Cross-references: Job 19:20 · Job 19:22 · Job 19:26 · Job 33:19 · Prov 14:32 · Luke 16:23