Job 14:3-5

The Voice

³     Lord, is this why You turn Your gaze on such a creature:
        to bring me,^[a] a mere human being, alongside You for judgment?
⁴     Who can take what is impure and defiled
        to fashion something pure and pristine?
        No one! We are, after all, so different in nature.
⁵     Since a person’s life is fixed,
        and You are the One who determines the number of his months,
    And You set a limit on the length of her life,
        and since they are incapable of exceeding Your decree,