Job 14
14
Job Continues: Consider My Frail Human Nature, God
1“A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
2He comes up like a flower; then he withers.
He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.
3You observe this
and call me to account to you.
4“If only an unclean person could become clean!#14:4 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God. “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.
It’s not possible.
5If the number of his days
and the number of his months are determined by you,
and you set his limit,
then he cannot go past it.
6Look away from him, and he will cease to be.
Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.
7There is hope for a tree when it is cut down.
It will sprout again.
Its shoots will not stop sprouting.
8If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump dies in the soil,
9merely a scent of water will make it sprout
and grow branches like a plant.
10But a human dies and is powerless.
A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?
11 ⌞As⌟ water drains out of a lake,
or ⌞as⌟ a river dries up completely,
12so each person lies down
and does not rise until the heavens cease to exist.
He does not wake up.
He is not awakened from his sleep.
13I wish you would hide me in Sheol
and keep me hidden there until your anger cools.
Set a specific time for me when you will remember me.
14“If a person dies, will he go on living?
I will wait for my relief to come
as long as my hard labor continues.
15You will call, and I will answer you.
You will long for the person your hands have made.
16Though now you count my steps,
you will not keep ⌞a record of⌟ my sins.
17My disobedience will be closed up in a bag,
and you will cover over my sins.
18As surely as a mountain falls
and rocks are dislodged,
19 ⌞so⌟ water wears away stone,
floods wash away soil from the land,
and you destroy a mortal’s hope.
20You overpower him forever, and he passes away.
You change his appearance and send him away.
21His sons are honored, and he doesn’t know it.
Or they become unimportant, and he doesn’t realize it.
22He feels only his body’s pain.
He is only worried about himself.”
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Job 14
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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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