Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,

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For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.
(A)You have set our iniquities before You,
Our (B)secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.

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Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
(A)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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Job Speaks of Life’s Woes

14 “Man who is born of woman
Is of few days and (A)full of [a]trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:1 turmoil

10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

11 “Why(A) did I not die at birth?
Why did I not [a]perish when I came from the womb?
12 (B)Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:11 expire

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