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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/13.htm" title="Job 13">◄</a> Job 14 <a href="../job/15.htm" title="Job 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22014" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn22014" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22014001" class="ver">1</span>Man born of woman</p> <p class="sl1">is short-lived and full of trouble,<a id="rfn22014001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22014001-1">*</a> <a id="ren22014001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014002" class="ver">2</span>Like a flower that springs up and fades,<a id="ren22014002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">swift as a shadow that does not abide.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014003" class="ver">3</span>Upon such a one will you set your eyes,</p> <p class="sl1">bringing me into judgment before you?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014004" class="ver">4</span>Can anyone make the unclean clean?<a id="ren22014004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">No one can.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014005" class="ver">5</span>Since his days are determined—</p> <p class="sl1">you know the number of his months;</p> <p class="sl1">you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass—</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014006" class="ver">6</span>Look away from him and let him be,</p> <p class="sl1">while, like a hireling, he completes his day.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014007" class="ver">7</span>For a tree there is hope;</p> <p class="sl1">if it is cut down, it will sprout again,</p> <p class="sl1">its tender shoots will not cease.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014008" class="ver">8</span>Even though its root grow old in the earth</p> <p class="sl1">and its stump die in the dust,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014009" class="ver">9</span>Yet at the first whiff of water it sprouts</p> <p class="sl1">and puts forth branches like a young plant.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014010" class="ver">10</span>But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him;<a id="ren22014010-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014010-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">when a mortal expires, where then is he?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014011" class="ver">11</span>As when the waters of a lake fail,</p> <p class="sl1">or a stream shrivels and dries up,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014012" class="ver">12</span>So mortals lie down, never to rise.</p> <p class="sl1">Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake,</p> <p class="sl1">nor be roused out of their sleep.<a id="ren22014012-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014012-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014013" class="ver">13</span>Oh, that you would hide me in Sheol,</p> <p class="sl1">shelter me till your wrath is past,</p> <p class="sl1">fix a time to remember me!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014014" class="ver">14</span>If a man were to die, and live again,</p> <p class="sl1">all the days of my drudgery I would wait<a id="ren22014014-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014014-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">for my relief to come.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014015" class="ver">15</span>You would call, and I would answer you;</p> <p class="sl1">you would long for the work of your hands.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014016" class="ver">16</span>Surely then you would count my steps,<a id="ren22014016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22014016-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1">and not keep watch for sin in me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014017" class="ver">17</span>My misdeeds would be sealed up in a pouch,<a id="rfn22014017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22014017-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and you would cover over my guilt.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014018" class="ver">18</span>Mountains fall and crumble,</p> <p class="sl1">rocks move from their place,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014019" class="ver">19</span>And water wears away stone,</p> <p class="sl1">and floods wash away the soil of the land—</p> <p class="sl1">so you destroy the hope of mortals!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014020" class="ver">20</span>You prevail once for all against them and they pass on;</p> <p class="sl1">you dismiss them with changed appearance.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014021" class="ver">21</span>If their children are honored, they are not aware of it;</p> <p class="sl1">or if disgraced, they do not know about them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22014022" class="ver">22</span>Only for themselves, their pain;</p> <p class="sl1">only for themselves, their mourning.</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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