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14:1 “Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble. 14:2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not remain. 14:3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment? 14:4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one! 14:5 Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit, and he cannot pass it. 14:6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
14:7 “But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 14:8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil, 14:9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant. 14:10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires—and where is he? 14:11 As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up, 14:12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
14:13 “O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me! 14:14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes. 14:15 You will call and I —I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.
14:16 “Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin. 14:17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin. 14:18 But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place, 14:19 as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope. 14:20 You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away. 14:21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it. 14:22 His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”
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