Job:14

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* »Man born of woman , lives a short life that is full of trouble . * »He springs up like a flower and fades away . He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure . * »Do you look on such a person ? Will you bring him before you for judgment ? * »Who can bring what is pure from the impure ? No one ! * »Man ’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 man . * »At least there is hope for a tree : If it is cut down , it will sprout again , and its new shoots will not fail . * »Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil , * yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth growth like a plant . * »On the other hand man dies and is laid low . He breathes his last and is no more ! * »Just like water that disappears from the sea or a riverbed that becomes parched and dry , * so men lie down and do not rise . Until the heavens are no more , men will not awake or be roused from their sleep . * »If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed ! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me ! * »If a man dies , will he live again ? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change to come . * »You will call and I will answer you ! You will long for the creature your hands have made . * »Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin . * »My transgressions will be sealed up in a bag . You will cover over my sin . * »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 man ’s hope . * »You overpower him once and for all , and he is gone ! You change his countenance and send him away . * »His sons are honored and he does not know it . They are brought low and he does not see it . * »He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself .«

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