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Job

Job on God's Power and Human Mortality (part 2)

Job 13:20-14:22
20Surely do not do two things with me; then I will not hide from your face. 21Remove your palm from me, and do not let your terror terrify me. 22Call, and I will answer; or speak, and return an answer to me. 23How many iniquities and sins are mine? Make my transgression and my sin known to me. 24Why do you hide your face and count me as an enemy to you? 25Do you drive a driven leaf and pursue dry stubble? 26For you write gall against me and make me possess the iniquities of my youth. 27You set my feet in the stocks and keep watch over all my ways; you set a mark upon the soles of my feet. 28He wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by a moth.
Chapter 14
1Man, born of woman, has but a few days and is full of trouble. 2He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and does not remain. 3You have set your eyes even on this, and you bring me into judgment with you. 4Who gives one pure from unclean? No one. 5If his days are decided and the number of his months is with you, you have made his statute so that he does not pass it. 6Gaze from him and let him cease until he accepts his day like a hired worker. 7For there is hope for a tree: if it is cut, it will sprout again, and its shoot will not cease. 8If its root grows old in the land and its stock dies in the dust, 9at the aroma of water it will sprout and make foliage like a plantation. 10But a man dies and is brought low; man expires, and where is he? 11As waters disappear from the sea and a river wastes and dries up. 12And a man lies down and does not arise; until the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused from his sleep. 13Who will give that you treasure me in Sheol, hide me until the return of your face, set a statute for me, and remember me? 14If a man dies, will he live? All the days of my service I will wait until my change comes. 15You will call, and I will answer you; you will long for the deed of your hands. 16For now you recount my steps; you do not keep watch upon my sin. 17My transgression is sealed in a bundle, and you smear upon my iniquity. 18But a falling mountain crumbles, and a rock is moved from its place. 19Stones wear away water; its torrents wash away the dust of the earth, and you destroy the hope of man. 20You prevail over him to perpetuity, and he goes; one who changes his face, and you send him away. 21His sons come to honor, yet he does not know; they are brought low, yet he does not understand for them. 22Surely his flesh upon him feels pain, and his soul upon him mourns.
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