Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Job 14:2-8 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

2. Our life is like a flower that grows quickly and then dies away. Our life is like a shadow that is here for a short time and then is gone.

3. God, do you need to keep an eye on something so small? Why bother to bring charges against me?

4. “No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

5. The length of our life has been decided. You alone know how long that is. You have set the limits for us and nothing can change them.

6. So stop watching us; leave us alone, and let us enjoy this hard life until we have put in our time.

7. “There is always hope for a tree. If it is cut down, it can grow again. It will keep sending out new branches.

8. Its roots might grow old in the ground and its stump die in the dirt,