[1] Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
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[2] He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
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[3] And does you open your eyes on such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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[4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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[5] Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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[6] Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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[7] For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
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[8] Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
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[9] Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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[10] But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
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[11] As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
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[12] So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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[13] O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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[14] If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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[15] You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
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[16] For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
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[17] My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
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[18] And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
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[19] The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
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[20] You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
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[21] His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
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[22] But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
