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📚✭“Man who is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 📚He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. And he flees like a shadow, and does not stay. 3 📚And do you open your eyes at such a one, and bring me into judgment with yourself? 4 📚✭Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one. 5 📚✭Since his days are determined, the number of his months being with you, you have set limits that he cannot pass. 6 📚Turn away from him, so that he may rest, until he has finished his day, like a hired man. 7 📚✭“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. 8 📚Even though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, 9 📚yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.10 📚But man dies, and is laid away; yes, man breathes his last, and where is he?
11 📚As water disappears from the sea, and a stream becomes parched and dried up,
12 📚So man lies down, and does not rise. They will not awake, or be roused out of their sleep, until the heavens are no more.
13 📚✭Oh, that you would hide me in the grave✭! That you would conceal me until your wrath is past! That you would appoint a set time for me, and remember me!
14 📚If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, until my change comes.
15 📚You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the work of your hands.
16 📚✭For now you will count my steps. Will you watch over my sin?
17 📚My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you cover my iniquity.
18 📚But surely the falling mountain crumbles away, and the rock is moved from its place;
19 📚Water wears away the stones, and torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.
20 📚You overpower him permanently, and he passes on; you change his countenance, and send him away. 21 📚His sons come to honour, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it.
22 📚But his body will be in pain, and his soul will mourn for himself”.