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1 "A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.
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1 "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
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2 He comes up like a flower and withers away, flees like a shadow, doesn't last.
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2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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3 You fix your eyes on a creature like this? You drag him to court with you?
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3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment?
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4 Who can bring what is pure from something impure? No one!
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4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
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5 Since his days are fixed in advance, the number of his months is known to you, and you have fixed the limits which he can't cross;
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5 Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
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6 look away from him, and let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.
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6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.
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7 "For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.
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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.
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8 Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,
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8 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
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9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
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9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
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10 But when a human being grows weak and dies, he expires; and then where is he?
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10 But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
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11 Just as water in a lake disappears, as a river shrinks and dries up;
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11 As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
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12 so a person lies down and doesn't arise until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won't be roused from its sleep.
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12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
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13 "I wish you would hide me in Sh'ol, conceal me until your anger has passed, then fix a time and remember me!
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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!
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14 If a man dies, will he live again? I will wait all the days of my life for my change to come.
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14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
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15 You will call, and I will answer you; you will long to see what you made again.
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15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
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16 Whereas now you count each step of mine, then you will not keep watch for my sin.
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16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
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17 You will seal up my crime in a bag and cover over my iniquity.
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17 My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
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18 "Just as a mountain erodes and falls away, its rock is removed from its place,
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18 "But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
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19 the water wears away its stones, and the floods wash away its soil, so you destroy a person's hope.
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19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.
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20 You overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.
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20 You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away.
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21 His children earn honor, but he doesn't know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn't notice.
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21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
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22 He feels pain only for his own flesh; he laments only for himself."
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22 He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself."
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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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