Job Speaks of the Finality of Death: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Job, Chapter 14, verses 1-22

¹“Man, who is born of woman, Is^a Lit short of daysshort-lived and full of turmoil.	Job 5:7 Ecc 2:23
²“Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.	Psa 90:5 Psa 90:6 Psa 103:15 Isa 40:6 Isa 40:7 Jam 1:10 Pe1 1:24 Job 8:9
³“You also open Your eyes on him And bring^b So with some ancient versions; M.T. mehim into judgment with Yourself.	Psa 8:4 Psa 144:3 Psa 143:2
⁴“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!	Job 15:14 Job 25:4 Psa 51:5
⁵“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And his limits You have^c Lit madeset so that he cannot pass.	Job 21:21
⁶“Turn Your gaze from him that he may^d Lit ceaserest, Until he^e Lit makes acceptablefulfills his day like a hired man.	Job 7:19 Psa 39:13
⁷“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not^f Or ceasefail.
⁸“Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil,
⁹At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.
¹⁰“But man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and where is he?	Job 3:13 Job 14:10-15 Job 13:9
¹¹“As water^g Lit disappearsevaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up,	Isa 19:5
¹²So man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no longer, ^h Lit TheyHe will not awake nor be aroused out ofⁱ Lit theirhis sleep.	Job 3:13
¹³“Oh that You would hide me in^j I.e. the nether worldSheol, That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and remember me!	Isa 26:20
¹⁴“If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my change comes.
¹⁵“You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.	Job 10:3
¹⁶“For now You number my steps, You do not observe my sin.	Job 31:4 Job 34:21 Psa 139:1-3 Pro 5:21 Job 10:6
¹⁷“My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You^k Lit plaster; or glue togetherwrap up my iniquity.	Deu 32:32-34
¹⁸“But the falling mountain^l Lit witherscrumbles away, And the rock moves from its place;
¹⁹Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy man’s hope.	Job 7:6
²⁰“You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away.	Job 4:20 Job 20:7
²¹“His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it; Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it.	Ecc 9:5
²²“But his^m Lit fleshbody pains him, And he mourns only for himself.”


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