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Job 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 14:1

Job 14:1“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

Job 14:2They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

Job 14:3

Job 14:3Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them[fn] before you for judgment?

Job 14:4

Job 14:4Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 14:5

Job 14:5A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

Job 14:6

Job 14:6So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

Job 14:7

Job 14:7“At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

Job 14:8

Job 14:8Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

Job 14:9

Job 14:9yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

Job 14:10

Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

Job 14:11

Job 14:11As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

Job 14:12

Job 14:12so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

Job 14:13

Job 14:13“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!

Job 14:14

Job 14:14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal[fn] to come.

Job 14:15

Job 14:15You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.

Job 14:16

Job 14:16Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.

Job 14:17

Job 14:17My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

Job 14:18

Job 14:18“But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,

Job 14:19

Job 14:19as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.

Job 14:20

Job 14:20You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.

Job 14:21

Job 14:21If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.

Job 14:22

Job 14:22They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”
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