Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 14:5 in context
Job 14:2–8
2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3
Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?
4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
5
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Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
6
Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
7
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8
Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
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