Job 14

1 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions. 2 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. 3 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing. 4 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? 5 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly. 6 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle? 7 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself? 8 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be. 10 Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said: 11 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 12 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? 13 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: 14 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: 15 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: 16 In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. 17 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: 18 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow) 19 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. 20 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water? 21 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. 22 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: