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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5A person's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Its roots may grow old in the ground 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 forth shoots like a plant. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person's hope. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves." |
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