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Job 14

1 "A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.

1 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

2 He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn't stay long.

2 They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

3 You observe this and call me to account to you.

3 Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?

4 "If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible.

4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

5 If 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.

5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

6 Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

7 There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.

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.

8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

8 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

9 merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant.

9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

10 But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?

10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

11 [As] water drains out of a lake, or [as] a river dries up completely,

11 As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

12 so 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.

12 so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

13 I 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.

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!

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.

14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

15 You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the person your hands have made.

15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.

16 Though now you count my steps, you will not keep [a record of] my sins.

16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.

17 My disobedience will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover over my sins.

17 My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

18 As surely as a mountain falls and rocks are dislodged,

18 “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,

19 [so] water wears away stone, floods wash away soil from the land, and you destroy a mortal's hope.

19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.

20 You overpower him forever, and he passes away. You change his appearance and send him away.

20 You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.

21 His sons are honored, and he doesn't know it. Or they become unimportant, and he doesn't realize it.

21 If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.

22 He feels only his body's pain. He is only worried about himself."

22 They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”