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Job 14

The Message Bible MSG

1 "We're all adrift in the same boat: too few days, too many troubles.

2 We spring up like wildflowers in the desert and then wilt, transient as the shadow of a cloud.

3 Do you occupy your time with such fragile wisps? Why even bother hauling me into court?

4 There's nothing much to us to start with; how do you expect us to amount to anything?

5 Mortals have a limited life span. You've already decided how long we'll live - you set the boundary and no one can cross it.

6 So why not give us a break? Ease up! Even ditchdiggers get occasional days off.

7 For a tree there is always hope. Chop it down and it still has a chance - its roots can put out fresh sprouts.

8 Even if its roots are old and gnarled, its stump long dormant,

9 At the first whiff of water it comes to life, buds and grows like a sapling.

10 But men and women? They die and stay dead. They breathe their last, and that's it.

11 Like lakes and rivers that have dried up, parched reminders of what once was,

12 So mortals lie down and never get up, never wake up again - never.

13 Why don't you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools? But don't leave me there! Set a date when you'll see me again.

14 If we humans die, will we live again? That's my question. All through these difficult days I keep hoping, waiting for the final change - for resurrection!

15 Homesick with longing for the creature you made, you'll call - and I'll answer!

16 You'll watch over every step I take, but you won't keep track of my missteps.

17 My sins will be stuffed in a sack and thrown into the sea - sunk in deep ocean.

18 "Meanwhile, mountains wear down and boulders break up,

19 Stones wear smooth and soil erodes, as you relentlessly grind down our hope.

20 You're too much for us. As always, you get the last word. We don't like it and our faces show it, but you send us off anyway.

21 If our children do well for themselves, we never know it; if they do badly, we're spared the hurt.

22 Body and soul, that's it for us - a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of sorrow."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 homo natus de muliere brevi vivens tempore repletus multis miseriis

2 quasi flos egreditur et conteritur et fugit velut umbra et numquam in eodem statu permanet

3 et dignum ducis super huiuscemodi aperire oculos tuos et adducere eum tecum in iudicium

4 quis potest facere mundum de inmundo conceptum semine nonne tu qui solus es

5 breves dies hominis sunt numerus mensuum eius apud te est constituisti terminos eius qui praeterire non poterunt

6 recede paululum ab eo ut quiescat donec optata veniat sicut mercennarii dies eius

7 lignum habet spem si praecisum fuerit rursum virescit et rami eius pullulant

8 si senuerit in terra radix eius et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius

9 ad odorem aquae germinabit et faciet comam quasi cum primum plantatum est

10 homo vero cum mortuus fuerit et nudatus atque consumptus ubi quaeso est

11 quomodo si recedant aquae de mari et fluvius vacuefactus arescat

12 sic homo cum dormierit non resurget donec adteratur caelum non evigilabit nec consurget de somno suo

13 quis mihi hoc tribuat ut in inferno protegas me ut abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei

14 putasne mortuus homo rursum vivet cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito expecto donec veniat inmutatio mea

15 vocabis et ego respondebo tibi operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram

16 tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti sed parces peccatis meis

17 signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea sed curasti iniquitatem meam

18 mons cadens defluet et saxum transfertur de loco suo

19 lapides excavant aquae et adluvione paulatim terra consumitur et homines ergo similiter perdes

20 roborasti eum paululum ut in perpetuum pertransiret inmutabis faciem eius et emittes eum

21 sive nobiles fuerint filii eius sive ignobiles non intelleget

22 attamen caro eius dum vivet dolebit et anima illius super semet ipso lugebit