If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
NIV
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare and service I will wait, till my change and release shall come. [John 5:25; 6:40; I Thess. 4:16.]AMP
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
KJV
"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail."
NIV
For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the tender shoots of it will not cease. [But there is no such hope for man.]AMP
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.
KJV
The days of mortals are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and have set limits they cannot exceed.
NIV
Since a man's days are already determined, and the number of his months is wholly in Your control, and he cannot pass the bounds of his allotted time--
AMP
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
KJV
So they lie down and do not rise; till the heavens are no more, they will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
NIV
So man lies down and does not rise [to his former state]. Till the heavens are no more, men will not awake nor be raised [physically] out of their sleep.
AMP
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
KJV
"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!"
NIV
Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the unseen state), that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, that You would set a definite time and then remember me earnestly [and imprint me on your heart]!
AMP
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
KJV
So look away from us and leave us alone, till we have put in our time like hired laborers.
NIV
[O God] turn from him [and cease to watch him so pitilessly]; let him rest until he has accomplished as does a hireling the appointed time for his day.
AMP
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
KJV
