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14:1  “A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
14:2  He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.
14:3  You observe this and call me to account to you.
14:4  “If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible.
14:5  If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it.
14:6  Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.
14:7  There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.
14:8  If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
14:9  merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant.
14:10  But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?
14:11  As water drains out of a lake, or as a river dries up completely,
14:12  so each person lies down and does not rise until the heavens cease to exist. He does not wake up. He is not awakened from his sleep.
14:13  I wish you would hide me in Sheol and keep me hidden there until your anger cools. Set a specific time for me when you will remember me.
14:14  “If a person dies, will he go on living? I will wait for my relief to come as long as my hard labor continues.
14:15  You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the person your hands have made.
14:16  Though now you count my steps, you will not keep a record of my sins.
14:17  My disobedience will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover over my sins.
14:18  As surely as a mountain falls and rocks are dislodged,
14:19  so water wears away stone, floods wash away soil from the land, and you destroy a mortal’s hope.
14:20  You overpower him forever, and he passes away. You change his appearance and send him away.
14:21  His sons are honored, and he doesn’t know it. Or they become unimportant, and he doesn’t realize it.
14:22  He feels only his body’s pain. He is only worried about himself.”