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14:1  “A human being born of a woman is short of days and full of troubles.
14:2  Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
14:3  Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.
14:4  “Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
14:5  If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
14:6  Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
14:7  “Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
14:8  though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,
14:9  at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.
14:10  “But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?
14:11  As water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,
14:12  so a man lies down, and he does not arise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.
14:13  “O that you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
14:14  If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.
14:15  You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.
14:16  For then you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin.
14:17  My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.
14:18  “But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.
14:19  Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.
14:20  You overpower him forever, and he passes away; you change his countenance, then you send him away.
14:21  His children may come to honor, but he does not know it; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it.
14:22  He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him.”