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Job 14 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:1 - “How frail is humanity!
How short is life, how full of trouble!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - We blossom like a flower and then wither.
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:3 - Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
and demand an accounting from me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:4 - Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
No one!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - So leave us alone and let us rest!
We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:7 - “Even a tree has more hope!
If it is cut down, it will sprout again
and grow new branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 - Though its roots have grown old in the earth
and its stump decays,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:9 - at the scent of water it will bud
and sprout again like a new seedling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:10 - “But when people die, their strength is gone.
They breathe their last, and then where are they?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - As water evaporates from a lake
and a river disappears in drought,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:12 - people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
nor be roused from their sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - “I wish you would hide me in the grave[fn]
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
But mark your calendar to think of me again!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:14 - Can the dead live again?
If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
and I would eagerly await the release of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:15 - You would call and I would answer,
and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:16 - For then you would guard my steps,
instead of watching for my sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:17 - My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
and you would cover my guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - “But instead, as mountains fall and crumble
and as rocks fall from a cliff,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 - as water wears away the stones
and floods wash away the soil,
so you destroy people’s hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:20 - You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.
You disfigure them in death and send them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:21 - They never know if their children grow up in honor
or sink to insignificance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 - They suffer painfully;
their life is full of trouble.”
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Hebrew in Sheol.
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Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.

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