Job 14
14
1Man that is born of a woman
Is of few days, and full of trouble.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:
He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,
And bringest me into judgment with thee?
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee,
Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6Turn from him, that he may rest,
Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7For 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.
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,
And the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud,
And bring forth boughs like a plant.
10But man dieth, and wasteth away:
Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea,
And the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12So man lieth down, and riseth not:
Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
Nor be raised out of their sleep.
13O 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!
14If a man die, shall he live again?
All the days of my appointed time will I wait,
Till my change come.
15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:
Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16For now thou numberest my steps:
Dost thou not watch over my sin?
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
And thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,
And the rock is removed out of his place.
19The 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.
20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:
Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not;
And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
22But his flesh upon him shall have pain,
And his soul within him shall mourn.
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1“We are all human beings.#14:1 human beings Literally, “born of woman.”
Our life is short and full of trouble.
2Our life is like a flower that grows quickly and then dies away.
Our life is like a shadow that is here for a short time and then is gone.
3God, do you need to keep an eye on something so small?
Why bother to bring charges against me?
4“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.
5The length of our life has been decided.
You alone know how long that is.
You have set the limits for us and nothing can change them.
6So stop watching us; leave us alone,
and let us enjoy this hard life until we have put in our time.
7“There is always hope for a tree.
If it is cut down, it can grow again.
It will keep sending out new branches.
8Its roots might grow old in the ground
and its stump die in the dirt,
9but with water, it will grow again.
It will grow branches like a new plant.
10But when a man dies,
he becomes weak and sick, and then he is gone!
11Like a lake that goes dry
or a river that loses its source,
12so people lose their lives,
never to live again.
The skies will all pass away
before they rise from death.
The skies will all disappear before
anyone wakes up from that sleep!
13“I wish you would hide me in my grave.
I wish you would hide me there, until your anger is gone.
Then you could pick a time to remember me.
14If a man dies, will he live again?
If so, I would gladly suffer through this time waiting for my release.#14:14 I would … release Or “I would wait my whole tour of duty for my replacement to come.”
15God, you would call me,
and I would answer you.
Then I, the one you made,
would be important to you.
16You would still watch every step I take,
but you would not remember my sins.
17It would be as if you had sealed my sins in a bag.
It would be as if you had covered my guilt with plaster.
18“Mountains fall and crumble away.
Large rocks break loose and fall.
19Water flowing over stones wears them down.
Floods wash away the soil on the ground.
In the same way, God, you destroy the hope people have.
20You defeat them completely
and then they are gone.
You change the way they look
and send them away forever to the place of death.
21If their sons are honored, they will never know it.
If their sons do wrong, they will never see it.
22They only feel the pain in their bodies,
and they alone cry for themselves.”
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