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Job 14

1 "All of us born to women live only a few days and have lots of trouble.

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

2 We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.

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

3 Lord, do you need to watch me like this? Must you bring me before you to be judged?

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

4 No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

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

5 Our time is limited. You have given us only so many months to live and have set limits we cannot go beyond.

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;

6 So look away from us and leave us alone until we put in our time like a laborer.

6 look away from him, and let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.

7 "If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will grow again and will send out new branches.

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

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

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

9 at the smell of water it will bud and put out new shoots like a plant.

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

10 But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground; we take our last breath and are gone.

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

11 Water disappears from a lake, and a river loses its water and dries up.

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

12 In the same way, we lie down and do not rise again; we will not get up or be awakened until the heavens disappear.

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.

13 "I wish you would hide me in the grave; hide me until your anger is gone. I wish you would set a time and then remember me!

13 "I wish you would hide me in Sh'ol, conceal me until your anger has passed, then fix a time and remember me!

14 If a person dies, will he live again? All my days are a struggle; I will wait until my change comes.

14 If a man dies, will he live again? I will wait all the days of my life for my change to come.

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

15 You will call, and I will answer you; you will long to see what you made again.

16 Then you will count my steps, but you will not keep track of my sin.

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

17 My wrongs will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover up my sin.

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

18 "A mountain washes away and crumbles; and a rock can be moved from its place.

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

19 Water washes over stones and wears them down, and rushing waters wash away the dirt. In the same way, you destroy my hope.

19 the water wears away its stones, and the floods wash away its soil, so you destroy a person's hope.

20 You defeat a person forever, and he is gone; you change his appearance and send him away.

20 You overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.

21 His sons are honored, but he does not know it; his sons are disgraced, but he does not see it.

21 His children earn honor, but he doesn't know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn't notice.

22 He only feels the pain of his body and feels sorry for himself."

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