Job 13:28-14:6

GOD’S WORD Translation

²⁸I am like worn-out wineskins,
like moth-eaten clothes.

Job Continues: Consider My Frail Human Nature, God

14 “A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
²He comes up like a flower; then he withers.
He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.
³You observe this
and call me to account to you.

⁴“If only an unclean person could become clean!^[a]
It’s not possible.
⁵If the number of his days
and the number of his months are determined by you,
and you set his limit,
then he cannot go past it.
⁶Look away from him, and he will cease to be.
Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

Footnotes

14:4 “Unclean ” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God. “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.