Job 14
HALLJob 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up.
As waters, that, after some exundation of the sea or some great river, are left, upon the reflux thereof, behind the rest, upon the plain, which cannot return or continue, but dry up and evaporate; such is man.
Job 14:14
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
All the days of my appointed time upon earth, will I patiently wait for that day, wherein my God shall change this my mortal condition for immortality: that so I may be ready for the happy day of my dissolution.
Job 14:17
My transgressions are sealed up in a bay.
Thou dost not let go any of my transgressions, but hast made sure work with them, and hast packed and sealed them up, that they may be forthcoming for my present punishment.
Job 14:18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Certainly, if the hugest and strongest mountains do moulder away, and come to nothing; if the very hardest rocks be, through the powerful hand of God, removed out of their places:
Job 14:19
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.
If the very stones be worn with water falling upon them; and deluges bear down any thing that is fastened in the earth, &c.; how much less shall weak and frail man make account to continue upon the face of the earth!
Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought lower, but he perceiveth it not.
When he is now in the agony of death, striving with those his last pangs, he little regards what honour his son is newly come unto, or what shame he hath incurred.
Job 14:22
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
But his flesh upon him is in extremity of pain, which takes up all his thoughts and senses; and his soul within him mourns for the present violence of his torment, and for the expectation or fear of the future.