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14:1  All of us are born of women, have few days, and are full of turmoil.
14:2  Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don’t last.
14:3  ( Yes, you open your eyes on this one; you bring me into trial against you.)
14:4  Who can make pure from impure? Nobody.
14:5  If our days are fixed, the number of our months with you, you set a statute and we can’t exceed it.
14:6  Look away from us that we may rest, until we are satisfied like a worker at day’s end.
14:7  Indeed there is hope for a tree. If it’s cut down and still sprouting and its shoots don’t fail,
14:8  if its roots age in the ground and its stump dies in the dust,
14:9  at the scent of water, it will bud and produce sprouts like a plant.
14:10  But a human dies and lies there; a person expires, and where is he?
14:11  Water vanishes from the sea; a river dries up completely.
14:12  But a human lies down and doesn’t rise until the heavens cease; they don’t get up and awaken from sleep.
14:13  I wish you would hide me in the underworld, conceal me until your anger passes, set a time for me, and remember me.
14:14  If people die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my restoration took place.
14:15  You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for your handiwork.
14:16  Though you now number my steps, you would not keep a record of my sin.
14:17  My rebellion is sealed in a bag; you would cover my sin.
14:18  But an eroding mountain breaks up, and rock is displaced.
14:19  Water wears away boulders; floods carry away soil; you destroy a people’s hope.
14:20  You overpower them relentlessly, and they die; you change their appearance and send them away.
14:21  Their children achieve honor, and they don’t know it; their children become insignificant, and they don’t see it.
14:22  They only feel the pain of their body, and they mourn for themselves.