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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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2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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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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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 the impure? No one!
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4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
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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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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 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.
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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 "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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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 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
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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 shoots like a 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 man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
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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 As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
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11 As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
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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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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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| Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
