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14:1  “A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.
14:2  He comes up like a flower and withers away, flees like a shadow, doesn’t last.
14:3  You fix your eyes on a creature like this? You drag him to court with you?
14:4  Who can bring what is pure from something impure? No one!
14:5  Since his days are fixed in advance, the number of his months is known to you, and you have fixed the limits which he can’t cross;
14:6  look away from him, and let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.
14:7  “For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.
14:8  Even if its roots grow 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 when a human being grows weak and dies, he expires; and then where is he?
14:11  Just as water in a lake disappears, as a river shrinks and dries up;
14:12  so a person lies down and doesn’t arise — until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won’t be roused from its sleep.
14:13  “I wish you would hide me in Sh’ol, conceal me until your anger has passed, then fix a time and remember me!
14:14  If a man dies, will he live again? I will wait all the days of my life for my change to come.
14:15  You will call, and I will answer you; you will long to see what you made again.
14:16  Whereas now you count each step of mine, then you will not keep watch for my sin.
14:17  You will seal up my crime in a bag and cover over my iniquity.
14:18  “Just as a mountain erodes and falls away, its rock is removed from its place,
14:19  the water wears away its stones, and the floods wash away its soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.
14:20  You overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.
14:21  His children earn honor, but he doesn’t know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn’t notice.
14:22  He feels pain only for his own flesh; he laments only for himself.”