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| | Job 14:1 | "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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| | Job 14:2 | He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
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| | Job 14:3 | And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
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| | Job 14:4 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
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| | Job 14:5 | Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
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| | Job 14:6 | look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
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| | Job 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.
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| | Job 14:8 | Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
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| | Job 14:9 | yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
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| | Job 14:10 | But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
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| | Job 14:11 | As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
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| | Job 14:12 | so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
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| | Job 14:13 | Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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| | Job 14:14 | If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
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| | Job 14:15 | Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
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| | Job 14:16 | For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
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| | Job 14:17 | my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
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| | Job 14:18 | "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
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| | Job 14:19 | the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
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| | Job 14:20 | Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
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| | Job 14:21 | His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
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| | Job 14:22 | He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."
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