en_cjb - Job 14 - Ozzuu Bible

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

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

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 something impure? No one!

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

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

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 branches like a young plant.

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

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

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 “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 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 to see what you made again.

¹⁶ Whereas now you count each step of mine, then you will not keep watch for my sin.

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

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

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

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

²¹ His children earn honor, but he doesn’t know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn’t notice.

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