Job Continues Explaining Human Limitations |
Job 14:1-22 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Man [who] is born of a woman is [alive only] a few days, full of trouble. He comes [out] like a flower & is cut down. He also [disappears] like a shadow & [no longer exists.] |
And [do] You open Your eyes upon [someone like this, but You] bring me into judgment with You? Who can bring a clean thing out [of something] unclean? [No] one. |
Seeing [man's] days are determined & You [know] the number of his months, You have [fixed] his [boundaries, so] that he can't pass [them.] Turn [away] from him, [so] that he may rest, [until] he has [finished] his [days like a hired worker.] |
For there is hope [for] a tree, if [it's] cut down, that it will sprout again & [its] tender branch will not cease. [Although its roots grow] old in the earth & the [trunk of it dies] in the ground. Yet, it will bud [with] the scent of water & bring forth boughs like a plant. But man dies & wastes away. |
[Yet,] man gives up the ghost & where is he? [Like] the waters [evaporate & disappear] from the sea & the flood [recedes] & dries up. So, man lies down [in death] & [doesn't] rise, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep, [until] the heavens [no longer exist.] |
[Revelation 21:1-2 And I saw a new heaven & a new earth; for the first heaven & the first earth [had] passed away & there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared [like] a bride adorned for her husband.] |
O that You would hide me in the grave, [so] that You would keep me [concealed,] until Your [anger has] past, [so] that You would [arrange a specific] time & remember me! If a man [were to] die, shall he live again? I will wait, all the days of my appointed time, [until] my change [comes.] |
[Revelation 3:5 He [who] overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white [garments] & I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father & before His Angels.] |
You shall call & I, the work of Your hands, will answer You, to [do what] You desire. [But] now, You [count] all my steps & [don’t] You [also] watch over my sin? [Job 31:4 [Doesn't] He see my ways & count all my steps?] My [sin] is sealed up in a bag & You also sewed up my iniquity. |
And surely, the falling mountain comes to [nothing] & the rock is removed [from its] place. The waters wear [away] the stones. You wash away the things [that] grow out of the [dirt] of the earth & You destroy the hope of man. You prevail forever against [man] & he passes [away.] |
You change his [appearance] & send him away [in death.] His sons [become honored,] but he [doesn'] know it. They are [humbled,] but he [isn't aware of] them. |
[Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead [don't] know anything, neither [do] they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.] But his flesh upon him shall have pain & his soul within him shall mourn. |