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Job 14:1-10
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Job 14:1-10
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“How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!
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We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
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Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?
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Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
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You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.
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So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
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“Even a tree has more hope! If it is cut down, it will sprout again and grow new branches.
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Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays,
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at the scent of water it will bud and sprout again like a new seedling.
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“But when people die, their strength is gone. They breathe their last, and then where are they?
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