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14:1  Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
14:2  He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
14:3  Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?
14:4  Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
14:5  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.
14:6  Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."
14:7  "There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.
14:8  Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,
14:9  the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
14:10  "But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
14:11  As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,
14:12  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."
14:13  "Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
14:14  If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
14:15  You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.
14:16  Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin.
14:17  My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.
14:18  "Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places.
14:19  Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
14:20  You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
14:21  "If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.
14:22  He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself."