Job 14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 14

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that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.

7“For there is hope for a tree,

if it is cut down, that it will sprout again

and that its shoots will not cease.

8Though its root grows old in the earth

and its stump dies in the ground,

9 number my steps;

you would not keep watch over my sin;

17 Deut 32.34; Hos 13.12 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,

and you would cover over my iniquity.

18 Job 18.4 “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,

and the rock is removed from its place;

19the waters wear away the stones;

the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;

so you destroy the hope of mortals.

20 Job 34.20; Jas 1.10 You prevail forever against them, and they pass away;

you change their countenance and send them away.

21 Eccl 9.5; Isa 55.10 Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;

they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

22They feel only the pain of their own bodies

and mourn only for themselves.”