Job 14

Job 14 is what I read for devos tonight. It really wasn't that exciting. Job is STILL talking to Zophar, at least I'm pretty sure. And he is still making his extremely long speech. But, there were some verses I found interesting.

Job 14:7-14

⁷ "At least there is hope for a tree:

If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not fail.

⁸ Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stump die in the soil,

⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant.

¹⁰ But man dies and is laid low;
he breathes his last and is no more.

¹¹ As water disappears from the sea
or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

¹² so man lies down and does not rise;
till the heavens are no more, men will not awake
or be roused from their sleep.

¹³ "If only you would hide me in the grave ^a]">[a]
and conceal me till your anger has passed!
If only you would set me a time
and then remember me!

¹⁴ If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my hard service
I will wait for my renewal ^b]">[b] to come.

Job is comparing the life of a tree to us. He talks about how the tree will live again, and questions whether men will live again. He then says that he will "wait for my renewal to come". Job thinks that the fate of a tree is better than the fate of a man, because the tree can sprout again.

Do you agree with Job? ;)

Mallory