The Book of Job, Chapter 14, Verse 22

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

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.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.

King James Version

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

American Standard Version

But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

New English Translation

His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

World English Bible

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?

With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.