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Job 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 “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!

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

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 long for 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 Surely then you will count my steps but 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 offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do 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 They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”

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