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Job 14
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International Standard Version
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Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
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He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
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Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?
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Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
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Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.
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Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."
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"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.
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Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,
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the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
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"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
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As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,
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so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won't awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep."
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"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
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If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
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You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.
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Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
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My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.
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"Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.
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Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
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You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
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"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.
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He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."
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