Job 14
Libro non riconosciuto. Prova con un'abbreviazione valida (es. Gen, Es, Gv, Sal).
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| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition |
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| 1 a human being, born of woman, whose life is short but ful of trouble. | 1 "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. |
| 2 Like a flower, such a one blossoms and withers, fleeting as a shadow, transient. | 2 He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not. |
| 3 And this is the creature on whom you fix your gaze, and bring to judgement before you! | 3 And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee? |
| 4 But will anyone produce the pure from what is impure? No one can! | 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. |
| 5 Since his days are measured out, since his tale of months depends on you, since you assign himbounds he cannot pass, | 5 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, |
| 6 turn your eyes from him, leave him alone, like a hired labourer, to finish his day in peace. | 6 look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day. |
| 7 There is always hope for a tree: when fel ed, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout. | 7 "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. |
| 8 Its roots may have grown old in the earth, its stump rotting in the ground, | 8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground, |
| 9 but let it scent the water, and it buds, and puts out branches like a plant newly set. | 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. |
| 10 But a human being? He dies, and dead he remains, breathes his last, and then where is he? | 10 But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? |
| 11 The waters of the sea wil vanish, the rivers stop flowing and run dry: | 11 As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries 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 lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused 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 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and 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 If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come. |
| 15 Then you would cal , and I should answer, you would want to see once more what you have made. | 15 Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands. |
| 16 Whereas now you count every step I take, you would then stop spying on my sin; | 16 For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin; |
| 17 you would seal up my crime in a bag, and put a cover over my fault. | 17 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity. |
| 18 Alas! Just as, eventual y, the mountain fal s down, the rock moves from its place, | 18 "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; |
| 19 water wears away the stones, the cloudburst erodes the soil; so you destroy whatever hope a personhas. | 19 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man. |
| 20 You crush him once for al , and he is gone; first you disfigure him, then you dismiss him. | 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest 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 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. |
| 22 He feels no pangs, except for his own body, makes no lament, except for his own self. | 22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself." |