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| Job 14:1 | "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. | As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. |
| Job 14:2 | He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. | 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 | Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you? | Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? |
| Job 14:4 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. | If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. |
| Job 14:5 | Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; | 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 | Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. | 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 | "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, That the tender branch of it will not cease. | 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 | Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground; | Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; |
| Job 14:9 | Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant. | Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. |
| Job 14:10 | But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and 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 the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up, | The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; |
| Job 14:12 | So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their 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 | "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and 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 | If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Until my release should 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 | You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands. | 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 | But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin? | For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. |
| Job 14:17 | My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. | My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe. |
| Job 14:18 | "But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The 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 | The waters wear the stones; The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of 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 | You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and 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 | His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it; They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them. | 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 his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns." | Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad. |
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