Job 14

Job shifts his focus to the sad brevity and frailty of human life. He compares mankind to a flower that quickly blooms and withers. Job asks if it is possible for a dead man to live again, expressing a deep desire for a hiding place in the grave until God's anger passes. He contrasts the cyclical renewal of a cut-down tree with the permanence of human death, concluding that man simply wastes away and is gone forever. Job laments that God watches every sin and keeps a strict account of all human failings.