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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.” |
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