Job 14 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
3 And do you consider it fitting to look down with your eyes on someone in this way and to lead him into judgment with you? And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?
4 Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with you; you have determined his limits, which cannot be surpassed. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6 Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand. look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.
7 A tree has hope: if it has been cut, it turns green again, and its branches spring forth. “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. “At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
8 If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust, Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
9 at the scent of water, it will sprout and bring forth leaves, as when it had first been planted. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
10 Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he? But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
11 It is as if the waters had receded from the sea and an emptied river had dried up; As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
12 just so, when a man is fallen asleep, he will not rise again, until the heavens are worn away; he will not awaken, nor rise from his sleep. so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep. so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
13 Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me? Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
14 Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs. If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come. If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
15 You will call me and I will answer you; to the work of your hands, you will extend your right hand. You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands. You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
16 Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins. For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin; Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
17 You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity. my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
18 A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place. “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
19 Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man. the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man. as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.
20 You have strengthened him for a little while, so that he may cross over into eternity. You will change his face and send him forth. You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away. You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.
21 Whether his sons have been noble or ignoble, he will not understand. His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.
22 And in this way his body, while he yet lives, will have grief, and his soul will mourn over himself. He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.” They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”
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