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Job 14:1-7

1 We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

1 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

2 We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.

2 They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

3 Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?

3 Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?

4 Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

5 The length of our lives is decided beforehand - the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.

5 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 us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life - if we can.

6 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 that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.

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.