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Job 14 (AMP)

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¹ MAN WHO is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. ² He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees also like a shadow and continues not. ³ And do You open Your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with You? ⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! ⁵ Since a man's days are already determined, and the number of his months is wholly in Your control, and he cannot pass the bounds of his allotted time-- ⁶ turn from him ; let him rest until he has accomplished as does a hireling the appointed time for his day. ⁷ For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the tender shoots of it will not cease. ⁸ Though its roots grow old in the earth and its stock dies in the ground, ⁹ Yet through the scent of water will bud and bring forth boughs like a young plant. ¹⁰ But man must die and lie prostrate; yes, man breathes his last, and where is he? ¹¹ As waters evaporate from the lake, and the river drains and dries up, ¹² So man lies down and does not rise . Till the heavens are no more, men will not awake nor be raised out of their sleep. ¹³ Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the unseen state), that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, that You would set a definite time and then remember me earnestly ! ¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare and service I will wait, till my change and release shall come. ¹⁵ You would call and I would answer You; You would yearn for the work of Your hands. ¹⁶ But now You number each of my steps and take note of my every sin. ¹⁷ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You glue up my iniquity . ¹⁸ But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles to nothing, and as the rock is removed out of its place, ¹⁹ As waters wear away the stones and as floods wash away the soil of the earth, so You destroy the hope of man. ²⁰ You prevail forever against him, and he passes on; You change his appearance and send him away . ²¹ His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. ²² But his body shall grieve over him, and his soul shall mourn .