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He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn't stay long.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You observe this and call me to account to you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>[As] water drains out of a lake, or [as] a river dries up completely,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>so each person lies down and does not rise until the heavens cease to exist. He does not wake up. He is not awakened from his sleep.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I wish you would hide me in Sheol and keep me hidden there until your anger cools. Set a specific time for me when you will remember me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"If a person dies, will he go on living? I will wait for my relief to come as long as my hard labor continues.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the person your hands have made.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Though now you count my steps, you will not keep [a record of] my sins.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My disobedience will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover over my sins.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As surely as a mountain falls and rocks are dislodged,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>[so] water wears away stone, floods wash away soil from the land, and you destroy a mortal's hope.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You overpower him forever, and he passes away. You change his appearance and send him away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His sons are honored, and he doesn't know it. Or they become unimportant, and he doesn't realize it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He feels only his body's pain. He is only worried about himself."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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