Job Chapter 14
The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.
American King James Version
14 : 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
14 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
14 : 3 And does you open your eyes on such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
14 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
14 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
14 : 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
14 : 7 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 : 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
14 : 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
14 : 10 But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
14 : 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
14 : 12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
14 : 13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
14 : 15 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
14 : 16 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
14 : 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
14 : 18 And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
14 : 19 The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
14 : 20 You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
14 : 21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
14 : 22 But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.