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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 14 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.1" class="v18_14_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.14.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We are all born weak and helpless.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_1">All lead the same short, troubled life.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.2" class="v18_14_2">2</span>We grow and wither as quickly as flowers;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_2">we disappear like shadows.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.3" class="v18_14_3">3</span>Will you even look at me, God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_3">or put me on trial and judge me?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.4" class="v18_14_4">4</span>Nothing clean can ever come</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_4">from anything as unclean as human beings.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.5" class="v18_14_5">5</span>The length of our lives is decided beforehand—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_5">the number of months we will live.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_5">You have settled it, and it can't be changed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.6" class="v18_14_6">6</span>Look away from us and leave us alone;<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.14.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_6">let us enjoy our hard life—if we can.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.14.6!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.7" class="v18_14_7">7</span>There is hope for a tree that has been cut down;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_7">it can come back to life and sprout.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.8" class="v18_14_8">8</span>Even though its roots grow old,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_8">and its stump dies in the ground,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.9" class="v18_14_9">9</span>with water it will sprout like a young plant.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.10" class="v18_14_10">10</span>But we die, and that is the end of us;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_10">we die, and where are we then?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.11" class="v18_14_11">11</span>Like rivers that stop running,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_11">and lakes that go dry,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.12" class="v18_14_12">12</span>people die, never to rise.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_12">They will never wake up while the sky endures;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_12">they will never stir from their sleep.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.13" class="v18_14_13">13</span>I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_13">let me be hidden until your anger is over,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_13">and then set a time to remember me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.14" class="v18_14_14">14</span>If a man dies, can he come back to life?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_14">But I will wait for better times,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_14">wait till this time of trouble is ended.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.15" class="v18_14_15">15</span>Then you will call, and I will answer,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_15">and you will be pleased with me, your creature.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.16" class="v18_14_16">16</span>Then you will watch every step I take,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_16">but you will not keep track of my sins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.17" class="v18_14_17">17</span>You will forgive them and put them away;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_17">you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.18" class="v18_14_18">18</span>There comes a time when mountains fall</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_18">and solid cliffs are moved away.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.19" class="v18_14_19">19</span>Water will wear down rocks,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_19">and heavy rain will wash away the soil;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_19">so you destroy our hope for life.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.20" class="v18_14_20">20</span>You overpower us and send us away forever;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_20">our faces are twisted in death.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.21" class="v18_14_21">21</span>Our children win honor, but we never know it,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_21">nor are we told when they are disgraced.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_14_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.14.22" class="v18_14_22">22</span>We feel only the pain of our own bodies</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_14_22">and the grief of our own minds.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.6: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One Hebrew manuscript </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and leave us alone; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">most Hebrew manuscripts </char><char style="fq" closed="false">so that we may rest.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.6: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">let us … can; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">until we finish our day of hard work.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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