Verse 21
Job 14:21
World English Bible, British Edition
21
His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָי/ו וְ/לֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝/יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽ/לֹא יָבִ֥ין לָֽ/מוֹ
English Translation
They will be honored, and they will not know, and they will be troubled, and they will not understand them.
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Chapter 14 Context
1
“Man, who is born of a woman,
is of few days, and full of trouble.
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2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
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3
Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgement with you?
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4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
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5
Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bou...
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6
Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
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7
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch o...
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8
Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
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9
yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.
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10
But man dies, and is laid low.
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
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11
As the waters fail from the sea,
and the river wastes and dries up,
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12
so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
nor be roused...
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13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
that yo...
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14
If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should...
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15
You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
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16
But now you count my steps.
Don’t you watch over my sin?
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17
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity.
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18
“But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place.
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19
The waters wear the stones.
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
So you destroy the h...
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20
You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
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21
His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of...
22
But his flesh on him has pain,
and his soul within him mourns.”
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