Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one (14:4)

Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; (14:5)

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day (14:6)

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease (14:7)

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; (14:8)

[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant (14:9)

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he? (14:10)

[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: (14:11)

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep (14:12)

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! (14:13)

If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come (14:14)

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands (14:15)

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (14:16)

My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity (14:17)

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place (14:18)

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man (14:19)

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away (14:20)

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them (14:21)

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn (14:22)

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