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Job 14:13 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me! "
Job 14:13
Verse in Context
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11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
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Job 14:1
"“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble."
Job 14:2
"He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue."
Job 14:3
"Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?"
Job 14:4
"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."
Job 14:5
"Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass."
Job 14:6
"Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day."
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