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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.” |
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