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

Job 14:1-21

Mortals, born of woman,   are of few days and full of trouble. They spring up like flowers and wither away;  like fleeting shadows, they do not endure. Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment? Who can bring what is pure from the impure?  No one! A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

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

If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me! If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. You will call and I will answer you;  you will long for the creature your hands have made.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place, as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope. You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;  you change their countenance and send them away. If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it. They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”

Why?

Yes, human beings are small and useless in this world, our lives like dust fly away by wind and disappear. We cannot even compare with a tree, and our life after born is of few days and full of trouble.

No one can see this world after passes away. our life is full of trouble then pass away in very few days.

So Job hopes to hide him in the grave until God's anger passes away. Job hopes the Lord remembers him.

How?

Our life is short and full of trouble, I am blessed for I know the Lord when I am alive. I have eternal life with the Lord, through Jesus Christ.