Job Continues to Argue His Case with God

• is short of days and full of troubles.[fn]
• 2 and he flees like a[fn] shadow, but[fn] he does not last.
• 3 and you bring me into judgment with you.
• 4 thing from an unclean thing? No one![fn]
• 5 are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
• 6  until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
• 7  if it is cut down, then[fn] it will sprout again,
• and its new shoots will not cease;
• 8  and its stump dies in the dust,
• 9 [fn] the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.
• 10 [fn] a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus[fn] a human being passes away, and where is he?[fn]
• 11 As water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,[fn]
• 12 [fn] a man lies down, and he does not arise. [fn] they will not awaken,
• and they will not be roused out of their sleep.
• 13 [fn] you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me[fn]
• that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
• 14 again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait,
• until the coming of my relief.
• 15 [fn] would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.
• 16 [fn] you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin.
• 17  and you would cover over my guilt.
• 18 [fn] a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.
• 19  its torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
• so[fn] you destroy the hope of human beings.
• 20  you change[fn] [fn] you send him away.
• 21 come to honor, but[fn] he does not know it; or[fn] they may become lowly, but[fn] he does not realize it.[fn]
• 22 [fn] and his inner self[fn] mourns for him.”[fn]