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14:1  “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,
14:2  comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
14:3  Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
14:4  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
14:5  Since their days are determined, and the number of their months is known to you, and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,
14:6  look away from them and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.
14:7  “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots 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 put forth branches like a young plant.
14:10  But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?
14:11  As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,
14:12  so mortals lie down and do not rise again; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake or be roused out of their sleep.
14:13  O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14:14  If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.
14:15  You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
14:16  For then you would not number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
14:17  my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
14:18  “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
14:19  the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of mortals.
14:20  You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance and send them away.
14:21  Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.
14:22  They feel only the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”