Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

14 “Man who is (A)born of a woman
    is (B)few of days and (C)full of trouble.

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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but man is (A)born to trouble
    as the sparks fly upward.

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Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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23 For (A)all his days are full of sorrow, and his (B)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

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23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(A) even at night their minds do not rest.(B) This too is meaningless.

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How then can man be (A)in the right before God?
    How can he who is (B)born of woman be (C)pure?

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

“Has not man (A)a hard service on earth,
    and are not his (B)days like the days of a hired hand?

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)

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Behold, (A)I was brought forth in iniquity,
    and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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Surely I was sinful(A) at birth,(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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14 (A)What is man, (B)that he can be pure?
    Or he who is (C)born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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25 “My (A)days are swifter than (B)a runner;
    they flee away; they see no good.

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25 “My days are swifter than a runner;(A)
    they fly away without a glimpse of joy.(B)

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My days are (A)swifter than (B)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

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“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(A)
    and they come to an end without hope.(B)

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my (A)sojourning are 130 years. (B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their (D)sojourning.”

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)

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11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

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11 Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

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17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (A)all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Toil Is Meaningless

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(A)

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

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You have made my days(A) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(B)
    even those who seem secure.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.