nsb - Job:14

nsb@Job:14:1 @ »Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

nsb@Job:14:2 @ »He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.

nsb@Job:14:3 @ »Do you look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment?

nsb@Job:14:4 @ »Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

nsb@Job:14:5 @ »Mans days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

nsb@Job:14:6 @ »So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.

nsb@Job:14:7 @ »At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

nsb@Job:14:8 @ »Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

nsb@Job:14:9 @ yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth growth like a plant.

nsb@Job:14:10 @ »On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!

nsb@Job:14:11 @ »Just like water that disappears from the sea or a riverbed that becomes parched and dry,

nsb@Job:14:12 @ so men lie down and do not rise. Until the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

nsb@Job:14:13 @ »If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!

nsb@Job:14:14 @ »If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change to come.

nsb@Job:14:15 @ »You will call and I will answer you! You will long for the creature your hands have made.

nsb@Job:14:16 @ »Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.

nsb@Job:14:17 @ »My transgressions will be sealed up in a bag. You will cover over my sin.

nsb@Job:14:18 @ »As a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,

nsb@Job:14:19 @ as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy mans hope.

nsb@Job:14:20 @ »You overpower him once and for all, and he is gone! You change his countenance and send him away.

nsb@Job:14:21 @ »His sons are honored and he does not know it. They are brought low and he does not see it.

nsb@Job:14:22 @ »He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.«