14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and 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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Yet man is born unto 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 all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also 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 justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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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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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

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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, I was shapen 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 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should 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 Now my days are swifter than a post: 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 swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent 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 unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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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 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that 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 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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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, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 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.