Added newer NLT, NKJV, ESV versions
This commit is contained in:
@@ -1,124 +1,51 @@
|
||||
# Chapter 14
|
||||
1. "How frail is humanity!
|
||||
|
||||
How short is life, how full of trouble!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. We blossom like a flower and then wither.
|
||||
|
||||
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
|
||||
|
||||
and demand an accounting from me?
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
4. Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
|
||||
|
||||
No one!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
5. You have decided the length of our lives.
|
||||
|
||||
You know how many months we will live,
|
||||
|
||||
and we are not given a minute longer.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
6. So leave us alone and let us rest!
|
||||
|
||||
We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
7. "Even a tree has more hope!
|
||||
|
||||
If it is cut down, it will sprout again
|
||||
|
||||
and grow new branches.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
8. Though its roots have grown old in the earth
|
||||
|
||||
and its stump decays,
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
9. at the scent of water it will bud
|
||||
|
||||
and sprout again like a new seedling.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
10. "But when people die, their strength is gone.
|
||||
|
||||
They breathe their last, and then where are they?
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
11. As water evaporates from a lake
|
||||
|
||||
and a river disappears in drought,
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
12. people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
|
||||
|
||||
Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
|
||||
|
||||
nor be roused from their sleep.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
13. "I wish you would hide me in the grave
|
||||
|
||||
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
|
||||
|
||||
But mark your calendar to think of me again!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
14. Can the dead live again?
|
||||
|
||||
If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
|
||||
|
||||
and I would eagerly await the release of death.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
15. You would call and I would answer,
|
||||
|
||||
and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
16. For then you would guard my steps,
|
||||
|
||||
instead of watching for my sins.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
17. My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
|
||||
|
||||
and you would cover my guilt.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
18. "But instead, as mountains fall and crumble
|
||||
|
||||
and as rocks fall from a cliff,
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
19. as water wears away the stones
|
||||
|
||||
and floods wash away the soil,
|
||||
|
||||
so you destroy people's hope.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
20. You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.
|
||||
|
||||
You disfigure them in death and send them away.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
21. They never know if their children grow up in honor
|
||||
|
||||
or sink to insignificance.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
22. They suffer painfully;
|
||||
|
||||
their life is full of trouble."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1 “How frail is humanity!
|
||||
How short is life, how full of trouble!
|
||||
2 We blossom like a flower and then wither.
|
||||
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
|
||||
3 Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
|
||||
and demand an accounting from me?
|
||||
4 Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
|
||||
No one!
|
||||
5 You have decided the length of our lives.
|
||||
You know how many months we will live,
|
||||
and we are not given a minute longer.
|
||||
6 So leave us alone and let us rest!
|
||||
We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
|
||||
7 “Even a tree has more hope!
|
||||
If it is cut down, it will sprout again
|
||||
and grow new branches.
|
||||
8 Though its roots have grown old in the earth
|
||||
and its stump decays,
|
||||
9 at the scent of water it will bud
|
||||
and sprout again like a new seedling.
|
||||
10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
|
||||
They breathe their last, and then where are they?
|
||||
11 As water evaporates from a lake
|
||||
and a river disappears in drought,
|
||||
12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
|
||||
Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
|
||||
nor be roused from their sleep.
|
||||
13 “I wish you would hide me in the grave
|
||||
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
|
||||
But mark your calendar to think of me again!
|
||||
14 Can the dead live again?
|
||||
If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
|
||||
and I would eagerly await the release of death.
|
||||
15 You would call and I would answer,
|
||||
and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.
|
||||
16 For then you would guard my steps,
|
||||
instead of watching for my sins.
|
||||
17 My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
|
||||
and you would cover my guilt.
|
||||
18 “But instead, as mountains fall and crumble
|
||||
and as rocks fall from a cliff,
|
||||
19 as water wears away the stones
|
||||
and floods wash away the soil,
|
||||
so you destroy people’s hope.
|
||||
20 You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.
|
||||
You disfigure them in death and send them away.
|
||||
21 They never know if their children grow up in honor
|
||||
or sink to insignificance.
|
||||
22 They suffer painfully;
|
||||
their life is full of trouble.”
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user