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| Job 14:1 | Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. | As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. |
| Job 14:2 | Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. | He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. |
| Job 14:3 | And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? | Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? |
| Job 14:4 | Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art? | If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. |
| Job 14:5 | The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. | If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go; |
| Job 14:6 | Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. | Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment. |
| Job 14:7 | A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. | For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end. |
| Job 14:8 | If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: | Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; |
| Job 14:9 | At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. | Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. |
| Job 14:10 | But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? | But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? |
| Job 14:11 | As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up: | The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; |
| Job 14:12 | So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. | So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep. |
| Job 14:13 | Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me? | If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! |
| Job 14:14 | Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. | If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free. |
| Job 14:15 | Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. | At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands. |
| Job 14:16 | Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. | For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. |
| Job 14:17 | Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity. | My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe. |
| Job 14:18 | A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. | But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place; |
| Job 14:19 | Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. | The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man. |
| Job 14:20 | Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. | You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away. |
| Job 14:21 | Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. | His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it. |
| Job 14:22 | But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him. | Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad. |
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