Job 14

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 a human being, born of woman, whose life is short but ful of trouble.	1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
2 Like a flower, such a one blossoms and withers, fleeting as a shadow, transient.	2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
3 And this is the creature on whom you fix your gaze, and bring to judgement before you!	3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
4 But will anyone produce the pure from what is impure? No one can!	4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?
5 Since his days are measured out, since his tale of months depends on you, since you assign himbounds he cannot pass,	5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
6 turn your eyes from him, leave him alone, like a hired labourer, to finish his day in peace.	6 Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
7 There is always hope for a tree: when fel ed, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout.	7 A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
8 Its roots may have grown old in the earth, its stump rotting in the ground,	8 If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
9 but let it scent the water, and it buds, and puts out branches like a plant newly set.	9 At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
10 But a human being? He dies, and dead he remains, breathes his last, and then where is he?	10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
11 The waters of the sea wil vanish, the rivers stop flowing and run dry:	11 As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:
12 a human being, once laid to rest, will never rise again, the heavens wil wear out before he wakes up,or before he is roused from his sleep.	12 So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
13 Will no one hide me in Sheol, and shelter me there til your anger is past, fixing a certain day forcal ing me to mind-	13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?
14 can the dead come back to life? - day after day of my service, I should be waiting for my relief tocome.	14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
15 Then you would cal , and I should answer, you would want to see once more what you have made.	15 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
16 Whereas now you count every step I take, you would then stop spying on my sin;	16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
17 you would seal up my crime in a bag, and put a cover over my fault.	17 Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
18 Alas! Just as, eventual y, the mountain fal s down, the rock moves from its place,	18 A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
19 water wears away the stones, the cloudburst erodes the soil; so you destroy whatever hope a personhas.	19 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
20 You crush him once for al , and he is gone; first you disfigure him, then you dismiss him.	20 Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
21 His children may rise to honours -- he does not know it; they may come down in the world -- he doesnot care.	21 Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
22 He feels no pangs, except for his own body, makes no lament, except for his own self.	22 But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.