The book of Job, verse 14
The book of Job, verse 14
By Luis Diaz
In the book of Job, verse 14, we read about how a Human that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He comes up like a flower and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow and does not continue. Seeing how his days are counted, the number of his months is with God. God has set a line that he cannot pass. Turn from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root grows old in the earth, and the stock dies in the ground, taste of water will bring buds. But man dies and wastes away: yes, man gives up his ghost, and where is he?
To me it doesn’t mean that we are simply come to this life to exists and wonder endlessly until the day we give our spirit back to God and die forgotten. This is a verse of hope for a life that can be fixed. We come into the world innocent and pure like a flower that is then cut down by the reminder that we carry with us a sin as of that moment. As we grow, we accumulate problems, some more than others. God has set the day of our death, therefore until the day comes, let him continue his journey.
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