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Job 14

1 "A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.

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

2 He comes up like a flower and withers away, flees like a shadow, doesn't last.

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

3 You fix your eyes on a creature like this? You drag him to court with you?

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

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

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

5 Since his days are fixed in advance, the number of his months is known to you, and you have fixed the limits which he can't cross;

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 let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.

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

7 "For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.

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 Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

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

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

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

10 But when a human being grows weak and dies, he expires; and then where is he?

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

11 Just as water in a lake disappears, as a river shrinks and dries up;

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

12 so a person lies down and doesn't arise until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won't be roused from its 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 Sh'ol, conceal me until your anger has passed, then fix a time 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 a man dies, will he live again? I will wait all the days of my life for my change to come.

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 to see what you made again.

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

16 Whereas now you count each step of mine, then you will not keep watch for my sin.

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

17 You will seal up my crime in a bag and cover over my iniquity.

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

18 "Just as a mountain erodes and falls away, its rock is removed from its place,

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

19 the water wears away its stones, and the floods wash away its soil, so you destroy a person'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, and he passes on; 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 children earn honor, but he doesn't know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn't notice.

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 pain only for his own flesh; he laments only for himself."

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