14Job 14

1We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.Select Job 14:1

2We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.Select Job 14:2

3Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?Select Job 14:3

4Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.Select Job 14:4

5The length of our lives is decided beforehand— the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.Select Job 14:5

6Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life—if we can.Select Job 14:6

7There is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.Select Job 14:7

8Even though its roots grow old, and its stump dies in the ground,Select Job 14:8

9with water it will sprout like a young plant.Select Job 14:9

10But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?Select Job 14:10

11Like rivers that stop running, and lakes that go dry,Select Job 14:11

12people die, never to rise. They will never wake up while the sky endures; they will never stir from their sleep.Select Job 14:12

13I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.Select Job 14:13

14If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.Select Job 14:14

15Then you will call, and I will answer, and you will be pleased with me, your creature.Select Job 14:15

16Then you will watch every step I take, but you will not keep track of my sins.Select Job 14:16

17You will forgive them and put them away; you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.Select Job 14:17

18There comes a time when mountains fall and solid cliffs are moved away.Select Job 14:18

19Water will wear down rocks, and heavy rain will wash away the soil; so you destroy our hope for life.Select Job 14:19

20You overpower us and send us away forever; our faces are twisted in death.Select Job 14:20

21Our children win honor, but we never know it, nor are we told when they are disgraced.Select Job 14:21

22We feel only the pain of our own bodies and the grief of our own minds.Select Job 14:22