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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
    like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)

14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(B)
    comes up like a flower and withers,
    flees like a shadow and does not last.(C)
Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
    Do you bring me into judgment with you?(D)
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
    No one can.(E)
Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,(F)
look away from them and desist,[a]
    that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.(G)

Footnotes

  1. 14.6 Cn: Heb that they may desist

28 Man[a] wastes away like (A)a rotten thing,
    like a garment that is (B)moth-eaten.

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

14 “Man who is (C)born of a woman
    is (D)few of days and (E)full of trouble.
He comes out like (F)a flower and (G)withers;
    he flees like (H)a shadow and continues not.
And do you (I)open your eyes on such a one
    and (J)bring me into judgment with you?
Who can bring (K)a clean thing out of an unclean?
    There is not one.
Since his (L)days are determined,
    and (M)the number of his months is with you,
    and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
(N)look away from him and leave him alone,[b]
    that he may enjoy, like (O)a hired hand, his day.

Footnotes

  1. Job 13:28 Hebrew He
  2. Job 14:6 Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease