Job 14
14
1“All of us born to women
live only a few days and have lots of trouble.
2We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die.
We are like a passing shadow that does not last.
3Lord, do you need to watch me like this?
Must you bring me before you to be judged?
4No one can bring something clean from something dirty.
5Our time is limited.
You have given us only so many months to live
and have set limits we cannot go beyond.
6So look away from us and leave us alone
until we put in our time like a laborer.
7“If a tree is cut down,
there is hope that it will grow again
and will send out new branches.
8Even if its roots grow old in the ground,
and its stump dies in the dirt,
9at the smell of water it will bud
and put out new shoots like a plant.
10But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground;
we take our last breath and are gone.
11Water disappears from a lake,
and a river loses its water and dries up.
12In the same way, we lie down and do not rise again;
we will not get up or be awakened
until the heavens disappear.
13“I wish you would hide me in the grave;
hide me until your anger is gone.
I wish you would set a time
and then remember me!
14Will the dead live again?
All my days are a struggle;
I will wait until my change comes.
15You will call, and I will answer you;
you will desire the creature your hands have made.
16Then you will count my steps,
but you will not keep track of my sin.
17My wrongs will be closed up in a bag,
and you will cover up my sin.
18“A mountain washes away and crumbles;
and a rock can be moved from its place.
19Water washes over stones and wears them down,
and rushing waters wash away the dirt.
In the same way, you destroy hope.
20You defeat people forever, and they are gone;
you change their appearance and send them away.
21Their children are honored, but they do not know it;
their children are disgraced, but they do not see it.
22They only feel the pain of their body
and feel sorry for themselves.”
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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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