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Job 14
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1“Man, who is born of a woman,
- is of few days, and full of trouble.
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2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down.
- He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
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3Do you open your eyes on such a one,
- and bring me into judgment with you?
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4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
- Not one.
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5Seeing his days are determined,
- the number of his months is with you,
- and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
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6Look away from him, that he may rest,
- until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
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7“For there is hope for a tree,
- If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
- that the tender branch of it will not cease.
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8Though its root grows old in the earth,
- and its stock dies in the ground,
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9yet through the scent of water it will bud,
- and put forth boughs like a plant.
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10But man dies, and is laid low.
- Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
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11As the waters fail from the sea,
- and the river wastes and dries up,
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12so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
- Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake,
- nor be roused out of their sleep.
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13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
- that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past,
- that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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14If a man dies, shall he live again?
- All the days of my warfare would I wait,
- until my release should come.
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15You would call, and I would answer you.
- You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
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16But now you number my steps.
- Don’t you watch over my sin?
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17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
- You fasten up my iniquity.
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18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
- The rock is removed out of its place;
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19The waters wear the stones.
- The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
- So you destroy the hope of man.
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20You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
- You change his face, and send him away.
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21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
- They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
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22But his flesh on him has pain,
- and his soul within him mourns.”
