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Job 14 (CEV)

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¹ Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul. ² We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish. ³ And so, I ask you, God, why pick on me? ⁴ There's no way a human can be completely pure. ⁵ Our time on earth is brief; the number of our days is already decided by you. ⁶ Why don't you leave us alone and let us find some happiness while we toil and labor? ⁷ When a tree is chopped down, there is always the hope that it will sprout again. ⁸ Its roots and stump may rot, ⁹ but at the touch of water, fresh twigs shoot up. ¹⁰ Humans are different-- we die, and that's the end. ¹¹ We are like streams and lakes after the water has gone; ¹² we fall into the sleep of death, never to rise again, until the sky disappears. ¹³ Please hide me, God, deep in the ground-- and when you are angry no more, remember to rescue me. ¹⁴ Will we humans live again? I would gladly suffer and wait for my time. ¹⁵ My Creator, you would want me; you would call out, and I would answer. ¹⁶ You would take care of me, but not count my sins-- ¹⁷ you would put them in a bag, tie it tight, and toss them away. ¹⁸ But in the real world, mountains tumble, and rocks crumble; ¹⁹ streams wear away stones and wash away soil. And you destroy our hopes! ²⁰ You change the way we look, then send us away, wiped out forever. ²¹ We never live to know if our children are praised or disgraced. ²² We feel no pain but our own, and when we mourn, it's only for ourselves.