| Chapter 14 |
1 | 'Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
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2 | He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
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3 | Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
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4 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
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5 | Seeing 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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6 | Look 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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8 | Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;
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9 | Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
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10 | But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
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11 | As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,
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12 | So 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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14 | If 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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15 | You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
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16 | But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
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17 | My 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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19 | The 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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20 | You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
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21 | His 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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22 | But his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns.'
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