Job 14
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1Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
2He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
3Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
5Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
6Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
7"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.7For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
8Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
9the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.9at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
10"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
11As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
12so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won't awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep."12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
13"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
14If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed. 14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
15You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made. 15You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
16Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
17My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.17My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
18"Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.18But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
19Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
20You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
21"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.21If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
22He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."22He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
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