Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Job 14:1-7 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. Life is short and sorrowfulfor every living soul.

2. We are flowers that fadeand shadows that vanish.

3. And so, I ask you, God,why pick on me?

4. There's no way a humancan be completely pure.

5. Our time on earth is brief;the number of our daysis already decided by you.

6. Why don't you leave us aloneand let us find some happinesswhile we toil and labour?

7. When a tree is chopped down,there is always the hopethat it will sprout again.