Job 14 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Job 14:1

Job 14:1“How frail is humanity!
How short is life, how full of trouble!

Job 14:2

Job 14:2We blossom like a flower and then wither.
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.

Job 14:3

Job 14:3Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
and demand an accounting from me?

Job 14:4

Job 14:4Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
No one!

Job 14:5

Job 14:5You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.

Job 14:6

Job 14:6So leave us alone and let us rest!
We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.

Job 14:7

Job 14:7“Even a tree has more hope!
If it is cut down, it will sprout again
and grow new branches.

Job 14:8

Job 14:8Though its roots have grown old in the earth
and its stump decays,

Job 14:9

Job 14:9at the scent of water it will bud
and sprout again like a new seedling.

Job 14:10

Job 14:10“But when people die, their strength is gone.
They breathe their last, and then where are they?

Job 14:11

Job 14:11As water evaporates from a lake
and a river disappears in drought,

Job 14:12

Job 14:12people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
nor be roused from their sleep.

Job 14:13

Job 14:13“I wish you would hide me in the grave[fn]
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
But mark your calendar to think of me again!

Job 14:14

Job 14:14Can the dead live again?
If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
and I would eagerly await the release of death.

Job 14:15

Job 14:15You would call and I would answer,
and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.

Job 14:16

Job 14:16For then you would guard my steps,
instead of watching for my sins.

Job 14:17

Job 14:17My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
and you would cover my guilt.

Job 14:18

Job 14:18“But instead, as mountains fall and crumble
and as rocks fall from a cliff,

Job 14:19

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

Job 14:20

Job 14:20You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.
You disfigure them in death and send them away.

Job 14:21

Job 14:21They never know if their children grow up in honor
or sink to insignificance.

Job 14:22

Job 14:22They suffer painfully;
their life is full of trouble.”

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Hebrew in Sheol.

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