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Job 14
[1] “Man, who is born of a woman,
is of few days, and full of trouble.
[2] He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
[3] Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?
[4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
[5] Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
[6] Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day. [7] “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
[8] Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
[9] yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.
[10] But man dies, and is laid low.
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
[11] As the waters fail from the sea,
and the river wastes and dries up,
[12] so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
nor be roused out of their sleep. [13] “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
[14] If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should come.
[15] You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
[16] But now you count my steps.
Don’t you watch over my sin?
[17] My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity. [18] “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place.
[19] The waters wear the stones.
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
So you destroy the hope of man.
[20] You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
[21] His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
[22] But his flesh on him has pain,
and his soul within him mourns.”
is of few days, and full of trouble.
[2] He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
[3] Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?
[4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
[5] Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
[6] Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day. [7] “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
[8] Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
[9] yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.
[10] But man dies, and is laid low.
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
[11] As the waters fail from the sea,
and the river wastes and dries up,
[12] so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
nor be roused out of their sleep. [13] “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
[14] If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should come.
[15] You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
[16] But now you count my steps.
Don’t you watch over my sin?
[17] My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity. [18] “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place.
[19] The waters wear the stones.
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
So you destroy the hope of man.
[20] You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
[21] His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
[22] But his flesh on him has pain,
and his soul within him mourns.”