Job from the Message Bible

Job
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Job 14:1 "We're all adrift in the same boat: too few days, too many troubles.

Job 14:2 We spring up like wildflowers in the desert and then wilt, transient as the shadow of a cloud.

Job 14:3 Do you occupy your time with such fragile wisps? Why even bother hauling me into court?

Job 14:4 There's nothing much to us to start with; how do you expect us to amount to anything?

Job 14:5 Mortals have a limited life span. You've already decided how long we'll live-- you set the boundary and no one can cross it.

Job 14:6 So why not give us a break? Ease up! Even ditchdiggers get occasional days off.

Job 14:7 For a tree there is always hope. Chop it down and it still has a chance-- its roots can put out fresh sprouts.

Job 14:8 Even if its roots are old and gnarled, its stump long dormant,

Job 14:9 At the first whiff of water it comes to life, buds and grows like a sapling.

Job 14:10 But men and women? They die and stay dead. They breathe their last, and that's it.

Job 14:11 Like lakes and rivers that have dried up, parched reminders of what once was,

Job 14:12 So mortals lie down and never get up, never wake up again--never.

Job 14:13 Why don't you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools? But don't leave me there! Set a date when you'll see me again.

Job 14:14 If we humans die, will we live again? That's my question. All through these difficult days I keep hoping, waiting for the final change--for resurrection!

Job 14:15 Homesick with longing for the creature you made, you'll call--and I'll answer!

Job 14:16 You'll watch over every step I take, but you won't keep track of my missteps.

Job 14:17 My sins will be stuffed in a sack and thrown into the sea--sunk in deep ocean.

Job 14:18 "Meanwhile, mountains wear down and boulders break up,

Job 14:19 Stones wear smooth and soil erodes, as you relentlessly grind down our hope.

Job 14:20 You're too much for us. As always, you get the last word. We don't like it and our faces show it, but you send us off anyway.

Job 14:21 If our children do well for themselves, we never know it; if they do badly, we're spared the hurt.

Job 14:22 Body and soul, that's it for us-- a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of sorrow."

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