Job 14
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1Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.1"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
2He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
3Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!4Who can make a clean thing come from an 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 man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
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 desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
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.7"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
8Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die 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 flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.
10"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?10But man dies and is powerless; he expires--and where is he?
11As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,
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 man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their 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.13"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time 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. 14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release 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--I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.
16Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.16"Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.
17My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.17My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
18"Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.18But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed 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 stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.
20You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.20You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance 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 are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
22He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."22Only his flesh has pain for himself, and he mourns for himself."
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