Thematic Bible
Job 14:1 (show verse)
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
Job 14:2 (show verse)
He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
Job 14:3 (show verse)
Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?
Job 14:4 (show verse)
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
Job 14:5 (show verse)
Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.
Job 14:6 (show verse)
Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."
Job 14:7 (show verse)
"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.
Job 14:8 (show verse)
Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,
Job 14:9 (show verse)
the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
Job 14:10 (show verse)
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
Job 14:11 (show verse)
As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,
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Job 14:12 (show verse)
so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won't awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep."
Job 14:13 (show verse)
"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
Job 14:14 (show verse)
If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
Job 14:15 (show verse)
You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.
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Job 14:16 (show verse)
Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
Job 14:17 (show verse)
My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.
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Job 14:18 (show verse)
"Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.
Job 14:19 (show verse)
Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
Job 14:20 (show verse)
You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
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Job 14:21 (show verse)
"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.
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Job 14:22 (show verse)
He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."