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Job 14
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Chapter 14
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Man, born of woman, has a short life yet has his fill of sorrow.
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He blossoms, and he withers, like a flower; fleeting as a shadow, transient.
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And is this what you deign to turn your gaze on, him that you would bring before you to be judged?
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Who can bring the clean out of the unclean? No man alive!
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Since man’s days are measured out, since his tale of months depends on you, since you assign him bounds he cannot pass,
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turn your eyes from him, leave him alone, like a hired drudge, to finish his day.
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There is always hope for a tree: when felled, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout.
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Its roots may be decayed in the earth, its stump withering in the soil,
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but let it scent the water, and it buds, and puts out branches like a plant new set.
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But man? He dies, and lifeless he remains; man breathes his last, and then where is he?
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The waters of the seas may disappear, all the rivers may run dry or drain away;
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but man, once in his resting place, will never rise again. The heavens will wear away before he wakes before he rises from his sleep.
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If only you would hide me in Sheol, and shelter me there until your anger is past, fixing a certain day for calling me to mind –
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for once a man is dead can he come back to life? day after day of my service I would wait for my relief to come.
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Then you would call, and I should answer, you would want to see the work of your hands once more.
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Now you count every step I take, but then you would cease to spy on my sins;
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you would seal up my crime in a bag, and whiten my fault over.
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But no! Soon or late the mountain falls, the rock moves from its place,
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water wears away the stones, the cloudburst erodes the soil; just so do you destroy man’s hope.
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You crush him once for all, and he is gone; you mar him, and then you bid him go.
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Let his sons achieve honour, he does not know of it, humiliation, he gives it not a thought.
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He feels no pain for anything but his own body, makes no lament, save for his own life.
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