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14:1  We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.
14:2  We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.
14:3  Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?
14:4  Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.
14:5  The length of our lives is decided beforehand— the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
14:6  Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life—if we can.
14:7  There is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.
14:8  Even though its roots grow old, and its stump dies in the ground,
14:9  with water it will sprout like a young plant.
14:10  But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?
14:11  Like rivers that stop running, and lakes that go dry,
14:12  people die, never to rise. They will never wake up while the sky endures; they will never stir from their sleep.
14:13  I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.
14:14  If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.
14:15  Then you will call, and I will answer, and you will be pleased with me, your creature.
14:16  Then you will watch every step I take, but you will not keep track of my sins.
14:17  You will forgive them and put them away; you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.
14:18  There comes a time when mountains fall and solid cliffs are moved away.
14:19  Water will wear down rocks, and heavy rain will wash away the soil; so you destroy our hope for life.
14:20  You overpower us and send us away forever; our faces are twisted in death.
14:21  Our children win honor, but we never know it, nor are we told when they are disgraced.
14:22  We feel only the pain of our own bodies and the grief of our own minds.