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Job 14:15 - 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
" You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands. "
Job 14:15
Verse in Context
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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 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.
16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
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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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