Job 14
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1"Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.1Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
2They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.2He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
3Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?3Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?
4Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
5A person's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.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.
6So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.6Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."
7"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.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.
8Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,8Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,
9yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.9the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.10"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
11As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,11As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,
12so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.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."
13"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!13"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.14If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
15You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.15You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.
16Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.16Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
17My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.17My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.
18"But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,18"Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.
19as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person's hope.19Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
20You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.20You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
21If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.21"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.
22They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves."22He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."
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