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14:1  “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
14:2  He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
14:3  And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgement with you?
14:4  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
14:5  Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
14:6  look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
14:7  “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
14:8  Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
14:9  yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
14:10  But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
14:11  As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,
14:12  so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.
14:13  Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be 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 service I would wait, till my renewal 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 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 man.
14:20  You prevail for ever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
14:21  His sons come to honour, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
14:22  He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”