1 a human being, born of woman, whose life is short but full of trouble.
2 Like a flower, such a one blossoms and withers, fleeting as a shadow, transient.
3 And this is the creature on whom you fix your gaze, and bring to judgement before you!
4 But will anyone produce the pure from what is impure? No one can!
5 Since his days are measured out, since his tale of months depends on you, since you assign him bounds he cannot pass,
6 turn your eyes from him, leave him alone, like a hired labourer, to finish his day in peace.
7 There is always hope for a tree: when felled, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout.
8 Its roots may have grown old in the earth, its stump rotting in the ground,
9 but let it scent the water, and it buds, and puts out branches like a plant newly set.
10 But a human being? He dies, and dead he remains, breathes his last, and then where is he?
11 The waters of the sea will vanish, the rivers stop flowing and run dry:
12 a human being, once laid to rest, will never rise again, the heavens will wear out before he wakes up, or before he is roused from his sleep.
13 Will no one hide me in Sheol, and shelter me there till your anger is past, fixing a certain day for calling me to mind-
14 can the dead come back to life? - day after day of my service, I should be waiting for my relief to come.
15 Then you would call, and I should answer, you would want to see once more what you have made.
16 Whereas now you count every step I take, you would then stop spying on my sin;
17 you would seal up my crime in a bag, and put a cover over my fault.
18 Alas! Just as, eventually, the mountain falls down, the rock moves from its place,
19 water wears away the stones, the cloudburst erodes the soil; so you destroy whatever hope a person has.
20 You crush him once for all, and he is gone; first you disfigure him, then you dismiss him.
21 His children may rise to honours -- he does not know it; they may come down in the world -- he does not care.
22 He feels no pangs, except for his own body, makes no lament, except for his own self.
Versículos relacionados com Job, 14:
In Job chapter 14, the character expresses his anguish in the face of the brevity of human life and the inevitability of death. He wonders whether there will be hope after death and reflects on the transience of human existence. The verses selected below address themes related to the fragility of human life and hope in God.
Psalm 39:4-5: "Make me know, Lord, my end, and the measure of my days what is I feel how fragile I am. Behold, my days have done as Palm; the time of my life It is like nothing before you, in fact, every man, no matter how firm, is totally vanity. " This psalm expresses the same anguish present in Job's heart about the fragility of human life and the brevity of time.
Psalm 90:12: "Teach us to tell our days, that we may reach wise heart." This psalm also addresses the transience of human life and the importance of valuing every moment as if it were the last.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52: "Behold, I say a mystery here: In fact, we will not all sleep, but we will all be transformed into an open and close eye, before the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and them Dead will be incorru with incorruptible, and we will be transformed. " In this verse, Paul speaks of hope in the resurrection and transformation of the human body into a glorified body.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18: "Therefore we do not break down; but even though our outer man is corrupted, the interior, however, renews himself from day to day. Because our light and momentary tribulation produces an eternal weight for us. of very excellent glory; not paying attention to us in things that are seen, but in those that are not seen; for those who see themselves are temporal, and those who do not see are eternal. " In this verse, Paul talks about the importance of maintaining hope in eternal life, even in the midst of the tribulations and difficulties of earthly life.
Revelation 21:4: "And God will clean from his eyes every tear; and there will be no more death, no weeping, no cry, no pain; for the first things are passed." This verse speaks of hope in eternal life in a new heaven and new earth, where there will be no more pain, death or sadness.
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