Job 14:7-22

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

7 "For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
 8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and x its stump die in the soil,
 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out y branches like a young plant.
 10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and z where is he?
 11 a As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
 12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till b the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be c roused out of his sleep.
 13 Oh that you would d hide me in e Sheol,
that you would d conceal me f until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my g service I would h wait,
till my renewal 1 should come.
 15 You would i call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the j work of your hands.
 16 For then you would k number my steps;
you would not keep l watch over my sin;
 17 my transgression would be m sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.

18 "But the mountain falls and n crumbles away,
and o the rock is removed from its place;
 19 the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
 20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.
 21 His sons come to honor, and he p does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
 22 He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself."

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:1
    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
  2. Cross References
    Job 29:19
    My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.
  3. Cross References
    Job 29:7
    When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:5
    And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 11:21
    That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
    Psalms 89:29
    I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
    Psalms 72:5
    May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!
    Matthew 5:18
    For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
  6. Cross References
    John 11:11
    After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 27:5
    For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
    Psalms 31:20
    In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 27:5
    For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
    Psalms 31:20
    In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
  9. Cross References
    Job 21:13
    They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:20
    Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
  11. Cross References
    Job 7:1
    Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
  12. Cross References
    Job 13:15
    Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
  13. Cross References
    Job 13:22
    Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
  14. Cross References
    Job 10:3
    Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
  15. Cross References
    Job 31:4
    Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
    Job 34:21
    For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
  16. Cross References
    Job 10:6
    That you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:34
    'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
    Hosea 13:12
    The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
  18. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:4
    All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
  19. Cross References
    Job 18:4
    You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
  20. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 9:5
    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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