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14:1  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
14:2  He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
14:3  And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
14:4  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
14:5  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
14:6  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
14:7  For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.
14:8  Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;
14:9  Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.
14:10  But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
14:11  As the waters fail from the sea, and the river decays and dries up:
14:12  So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
14:13  O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14:14  If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.
14:15  You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
14:16  For now you number my steps: do not watch over my sin.
14:17  My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
14:18  And surely the mountain falling, comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
14:19  The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
14:20  You prevail forever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
14:21  His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
14:22  But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.