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| The Book of Job 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 14:1 | As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:2 | 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 | Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:4 | If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:5 | 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 | 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 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 its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:9 | Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:10 | But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:11 | The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:12 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:17 | My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:18 | But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:19 | 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 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 honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 14:22 | Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad. | |||||||||||||||
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