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| The Way of Wisdom: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon Job Chapter 14 14:1 Man born of woman living a brief moment, is full of many miseries. 14:2 He comes forth like a flower and is destroyed. He vanishes like a shadow. He will never endure in his place. 14:3 And do You consider it fair to open your eyes over one like him, and bring him to you in judgment? 14:4 Who can make him clean, conceived as he is of unclean seed? Isn’t it You, who are unique? 14:5 Man only has a few days. You Yourself placed an end to the number of his months. You have established his limits which cannot be passed. 14:6 Turn away from him a little! Let him rest until his desire should come. His days are like a hired soldier’s. 14:7 A tree has hope. If it is cut down, it will grow green again. Its branches will bud. 14:8 If its roots grow old in the soil and its trunk decays into dust, 14:9 at the scent of water it will germinate and bear fruit like when it was first planted. 14:10 But when a man dies, and is laid out and eaten up, where is he, I ask? 14:11 In the same way the waters of the sea ebb away, and empty rivers dry up, 14:12 so man when he falls asleep will not wake back up until the sky grinds away. He will not awaken or get up from his sleep. 14:13 Who can give this to me, that You may protect me in the inferno, that You may hide me until your fury passes over, that You give me a time when You will remember me? 14:14 You don’t believe a dead man can rise up again and live, do you? All of my days now I campaign on. I am waiting until my release comes. 14:15 You will call and I will respond to you. You will stretch out your right hand to the work of your hands. 14:16 You indeed have numbered my steps, but You spare my sins. 14:17 You sealed my offenses as if in a small sack, yet have been concerned with my treachery. 14:18 A mountain, falling, will fade away, and a rock is moved from its place. 14:19 Waters wear away stones and earth is consumed little by little by flood, and You, therefore, destroy men in the same way. 14:20 You have strengthened him a little, that his face may pass away forever, and you will drive him out. 14:21 Whether his children will be noble or ignoble, he does not know. 14:22 Yet his flesh, while he still lives, will ache, and his soul will mourn over him. ©2008, John G. Cunyus, www.JohnCunyus.com All Rights to the English Translation Reserved |
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