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1 |A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble. “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
2 He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn't stay long. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
3 You observe this and call me to account to you. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?
4 |If only an unclean person could become clean! It's not possible. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
5 If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6 Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work. look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.
7 There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting. “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. “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 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
9 merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant. yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
10 But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he? But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
11 [As] water drains out of a lake, or [as] a river dries up completely, As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
12 so each person lies down and does not rise until the heavens cease to exist. He does not wake up. He is not awakened from his sleep. so 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. so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
13 I wish you would hide me in Sheol and keep me hidden there until your anger cools. Set a specific time for me when you will remember me. Oh 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! “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 |If a person dies, will he go on living? I will wait for my relief to come as long as my hard labor continues. If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come. If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
15 You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the person your hands have made. You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands. You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
16 Though now you count my steps, you will not keep [a record of] my sins. For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin; Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
17 My disobedience will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover over my sins. my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
18 As surely as a mountain falls and rocks are dislodged, “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
19 [so] water wears away stone, floods wash away soil from the land, and you destroy a mortal's hope. the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man. as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.
20 You overpower him forever, and he passes away. You change his appearance and send him away. You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away. You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.
21 His sons are honored, and he doesn't know it. Or they become unimportant, and he doesn't realize it. His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.
22 He feels only his body's pain. He is only worried about himself.| He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.” They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”
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