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Job 14

1 All of us are born of women, have few days, and are full of turmoil.

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

2 Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don't last.

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

3 (Yes, you open your eyes on this one; you bring me into trial against you.)

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

4 Who can make pure from impure? Nobody.

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

5 If our days are fixed, the number of our months with you, you set a statute and we can't exceed 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 us that we may rest, until we are satisfied like a worker at day's end.

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

7 Indeed there is hope for a tree. If it's cut down and still sprouting and its shoots don't fail,

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 age in the ground and its stump dies in the dust,

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

9 at the scent of water, it will bud and produce sprouts 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 lies there; a person expires, and where is he?

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

11 Water vanishes from the sea; a river dries up completely.

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

12 But a human lies down and doesn't rise until the heavens cease; they don't get up and awaken from 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 the underworld, conceal me until your anger passes, set a time for me, and 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 people die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my restoration took place.

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 would call, and I would answer you; you would long for your handiwork.

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

16 Though you now number my steps, you would not keep a record of my sin.

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

17 My rebellion is sealed in a bag; you would cover my sin.

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

18 But an eroding mountain breaks up, and rock is displaced.

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

19 Water wears away boulders; floods carry away soil; you destroy a people's hope.

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

20 You overpower them relentlessly, and they die; you change their appearance and send them away.

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

21 Their children achieve honor, and they don't know it; their children become insignificant, and they don't see it.

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

22 They only feel the pain of their body, and they mourn for themselves.

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