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1 - “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

2 - He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

3 - Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

4 - Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

5 - Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

6 - Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

7 - “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

8 - Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

9 - yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

10 - But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

11 - As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

12 - so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

13 - “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 - If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

15 - You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

16 - But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

17 - My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

18 - “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

19 - The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

20 - You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

21 - His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

22 - But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”