Job 14 — ULB

14Verse 1Man, who is born of woman,
lives only a few days and is full of trouble.
^{Verse 2}He sprouts from the ground like a flower and is cut down;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
^{Verse 3}Do you look at any of these?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?
^{Verse 4}Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one.
^{Verse 5}Man's days are determined.
The number of his months is with you;
you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
^{Verse 6}Look away from him that he may rest,
so that he may enjoy his day like a hired man if he can do so.^{Verse 7}There can be hope for a tree;
if it is cut down, it might sprout again,
so that its tender stalk does not disappear.
^{Verse 8}Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stump dies in the ground,
^{Verse 9}yet even if it only smells water, it will bud
and send out branches like a plant.
^{Verse 10}But man dies; he becomes weak;
indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he?
^{Verse 11}As water disappears from a lake,
and as a river loses water and dries up,
^{Verse 12}so people lie down and do not rise again.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
nor be roused out of their sleep.^{Verse 13}Oh, that you would hide me away in Sheol away from troubles,
and that you would keep me in private until your wrath is over,
that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind!
^{Verse 14}If a man dies, will he live again?
If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there
until my release should come.
^{Verse 15}You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
^{Verse 16}You would number and care for my footsteps;
you would not keep track of my sin.
^{Verse 17}My transgression would be sealed up in a bag;
you would cover up my iniquity.^{Verse 18}But even mountains fall and come to nothing;
even rocks are moved out of their place;
^{Verse 19}the waters wear down the stones;
their flooding washes away the dust of the earth.
Like this, you destroy the hope of man.
^{Verse 20}You always defeat him, and he passes away;
you change his face and send him away to die.
^{Verse 21}If his sons are honored, he does not know it;
and if they are brought low, he does not see it.
^{Verse 22}He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns for himself.