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Job 14:5-7

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Job 14:5-7 Good News Translation (GNT)

5 The length of our lives is decided beforehand—
    the number of months we will live.
You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
6 Look away from us and leave us alone;[a]
    let us enjoy our hard life—if we can.[b]

7 There is hope for a tree that has been cut down;
    it can come back to life and sprout.

Footnotes:

  1. Job 14:6 One Hebrew manuscript and leave us alone; most Hebrew manuscripts so that we may rest.
  2. Job 14:6 let us … can; or until we finish our day of hard work.
Good News Translation (GNT)

Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society

Job 14:5-7 New International Version (NIV)

5 A person’s days are determined;
    you have decreed the number of his months
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6 So look away from him and let him alone,
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

7 “At least there is hope for a tree:
    If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
    and its new shoots will not fail.

New International Version (NIV)

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