Job - Chapter 14 | Good News Translation

  • 1. We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.
  • 2. We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.
  • 3. Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?
  • 4. Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.
  • 5. The length of our lives is decided beforehand--- the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
  • 6. Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life---if we can.
  • 7. There is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.
  • 8. Even though its roots grow old, and its stump dies in the ground,
  • 9. with water it will sprout like a young plant.
  • 10. But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?
  • 11. Like rivers that stop running, and lakes that go dry,
  • 12. people die, never to rise. They will never wake up while the sky endures; they will never stir from their sleep.
  • 13. I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.
  • 14. If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.
  • 15. Then you will call, and I will answer, and you will be pleased with me, your creature.
  • 16. Then you will watch every step I take, but you will not keep track of my sins.
  • 17. You will forgive them and put them away; you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.
  • 18. There comes a time when mountains fall and solid cliffs are moved away.
  • 19. Water will wear down rocks, and heavy rain will wash away the soil; so you destroy our hope for life.
  • 20. You overpower us and send us away forever; our faces are twisted in death.
  • 21. Our children win honor, but we never know it, nor are we told when they are disgraced.
  • 22. We feel only the pain of our own bodies and the grief of our own minds.
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