Job 14:6-13 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

8. Its roots and stump may rot,

9. but at the touch of water,fresh twigs shoot up.

10. Humans are different—we die, and that's the end.

11. We are like streams and lakesafter the water has gone;

12. we fall into the sleep of death,never to rise again,until the sky disappears.

13. Please hide me, God,deep in the ground—and when you are angry no more,remember to rescue me.

Job 14