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14 “Kami nga mga tawo malip-ot lang ang amon kabuhi, kag madamo kami sang kalisod. Pareho kami sa bulak nga nagabuskad kag sa indi madugay nagakalaya, ukon pareho sa landong nga nagakadula gilayon. Ti ngaa ginabantayan mo gid ang tawo, Ginoo? Gusto mo pa siya[a] nga hukman. May tawo bala nga makakabuhi nga matinlo gid? Wala! Kay ang tanan natawo nga mahigko. Ginpat-od mo na kon ano kalawig ang kabuhi sang tawo. Kag indi siya makapasobra sa tion nga gintalana mo sa iya. Gani indi na lang paghingabuta ang tawo, pabay-i na lang siya agod makapatawhay man siya pareho sa isa ka trabahador pagkatapos sang obra.

“Kon utdon ang isa ka kahoy, may tsansa pa nga mabuhi ini kag magtubo liwat. Bisan patay na ang puno sini kag gulang na ang mga gamot, kon matubigan magapanalingsing pa ini pareho sa isa ka bag-o nga tanom. 10 Pero kon ang tawo ang mapatay, madula na ang tanan niya nga kusog. Pagkabugto sang iya ginhawa amo na ina ang iya katapusan. 11 Subong nga nagabuhin ang tubig sa dagat kag nagahubas ang suba, 12 ang tawo nagakapatay, kag indi na siya makabangon ukon makabugtaw sa iya pagkatulog samtang may kalangitan pa.

13 O Ginoo, kabay pa kuntani nga taguon mo na lang ako sa lugar sang mga patay hasta madula ang imo kaakig, kag magtalana ka sang tion nga dumdumon mo ako didto. 14 Kon mapatay ang tawo mabuhi pa bala siya liwat? Ti batason ko ang bug-os nga tion sang akon pag-antos hasta mag-abot ang tion nga matapos ini. 15 Sa tion nga magpanawag ka sa akon, Ginoo, magasabat ako. Handumon mo ako nga imo tinuga. 16 Bisan sa sina nga tion bantayan mo ang akon mga ginahimo, pero indi mo na pagdumdumon pa ang akon sala. 17 Daw pareho lang nga isulod mo ini sa bag agod matabunan kag indi mo na makita pa. 18 Pero subong nga nagakatiphag ang bukid kag nagakahulog ang bato halin sa banglid, 19 kag subong man nga nagatais ang bato sa padayon nga pag-ilig sang tubig kag nagaab-ab ang duta tungod sa madamol nga ulan, ginaguba mo ang paglaom sang tawo. 20 Ginadaog mo siya permi kag nagakapatay siya, kag ginabag-o mo ang iya hitsura kon magtaliwan na siya. 21 Indi siya makahibalo kon ang iya mga anak ginapadunggan ukon ginapakanubo. 22 Ang nabatyagan lang niya amo ang iya kaugalingon nga kasakit kag kasubo.”

Footnotes

  1. 14:3 siya: Amo ini sa Septuagint, Latin Vulgate, kag Syriac. Sa Hebreo, ako.

14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)
They spring up like flowers(D) and wither away;(E)
    like fleeting shadows,(F) they do not endure.(G)
Do you fix your eye on them?(H)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(I)
Who can bring what is pure(J) from the impure?(K)
    No one!(L)
A person’s days are determined;(M)
    you have decreed the number of his months(N)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(O)
So look away from him and let him alone,(P)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(Q)

“At least there is hope for a tree:(R)
    If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
    and its new shoots(S) will not fail.(T)
Its roots may grow old in the ground
    and its stump(U) die in the soil,
yet at the scent of water(V) it will bud
    and put forth shoots like a plant.(W)
10 But a man dies and is laid low;(X)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(Y)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(Z)
12 so he lies down and does not rise;(AA)
    till the heavens are no more,(AB) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.(AC)

13 “If only you would hide me in the grave(AD)
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!(AE)
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember(AF) me!(AG)
14 If someone dies, will they live again?
    All the days of my hard service(AH)
    I will wait for my renewal[b](AI) to come.
15 You will call and I will answer you;(AJ)
    you will long for the creature your hands have made.(AK)
16 Surely then you will count my steps(AL)
    but not keep track of my sin.(AM)
17 My offenses will be sealed(AN) up in a bag;(AO)
    you will cover over my sin.(AP)

18 “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles(AQ)
    and as a rock is moved from its place,(AR)
19 as water wears away stones
    and torrents(AS) wash away the soil,(AT)
    so you destroy a person’s hope.(AU)
20 You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;(AV)
    you change their countenance and send them away.(AW)
21 If their children are honored, they do not know it;
    if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.(AX)
22 They feel but the pain of their own bodies(AY)
    and mourn only for themselves.(AZ)

Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me
  2. Job 14:14 Or release

14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.