Job 14

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¹“Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. ✦ ²“Like a flower he comes out and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. ✦ ³“You also open Your eyes on him And bring him into judgment with Yourself. ✦ ⁴“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one! ✦ ⁵“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And You have set his limits so that he cannot pass. ✦ ⁶“Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker. ✦ ⁷¶“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail. ✦ ⁸“Though its roots grow old in the ground, And its stump dies in the dry soil, ✦ ⁹At the scent of water it will flourish And produce sprigs like a plant. ✦ ¹⁰“But a man dies and lies prostrate. A person passes away, and where is he? ✦ ¹¹“As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up, ✦ ¹²So a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens no longer exist, He will not awake nor be woken from his sleep. ✦ ¹³¶“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and remember me! ✦ ¹⁴“If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my relief comes. ✦ ¹⁵“You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands. ✦ ¹⁶“For now You number my steps, You do not observe my sin. ✦ ¹⁷“My wrongdoing is sealed up in a bag, And You cover over my guilt. ✦ ¹⁸¶“But the falling mountain crumbles away, And the rock moves from its place; ✦ ¹⁹Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy a man’s hope. ✦ ²⁰“You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away. ✦ ²¹“His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it; Or they become insignificant, and he does not perceive it. ✦ ²²“However, his body pains him, And his soul mourns for himself.” ✦

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Job 7 ·12 Job 19 ·8 Job 10 ·7 Job 14 ·5 Job 13 ·5 Ps 39 ·4 Job 9 ·4 Dan 4 ·3

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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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