Job
Chapter 14
1 A person born from a woman lives only a short time and has many problems.
2 He blooms like a flower and then is trimmed. He also flees like a shadow and does not stay.
3 Do you watch such a person and bring me to trial with you?
4 Who can make a clean thing from an unclean one? No one.
5 God has set the number of his days, and knows how many months he will live. You have decided his limits, which he cannot go beyond.
6 Let him alone so he can have peace until he finishes his workday like a worker.
7 A tree has hope because if it’s cut down, it can grow back, and its new shoots won’t stop.
8 Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground;
9 Even if it smells water, it will sprout and grow branches like a plant.
10 When a person dies, they decay; when they stop breathing, where do they go?
11 As the water disappears from the sea, and a riverbed becomes dry and empty:
12 People lie down and do not rise again; until the sky is gone, they will not wake up or be woken from their sleep.
13 I wish you would hide me in the grave and keep me hidden until your anger is over, then set a time to remember me.
14 If someone dies, will they live again? I will wait for all the days set for me until it is my turn to change.
15 You will call, and I will answer you; you will long for what your hands have made.
16 You count my steps now; are you not keeping watch on my sin?
17 My wrong is locked in a bag, and you stitch up my sin.
18 Mountains crumble and disappear, and rocks are moved from their spots.
19 Water wears down stones; you wash away the soil’s growth; you crush human hopes.
20 You always win against him, and he goes away; you change his face, and send him off.
21 His sons achieve honor but he doesn’t know it; they are humbled, yet he doesn’t notice.
22 His body will feel pain, and his heart will be sad.