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Job 14:1
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14 “How frail is humanity!
    How short is life, how full of trouble!

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Listen to Job 14:1, Job 5:7, Ecclesiastes 2:23, Job 25:4, Job 7:1, Psalm 51:5, Job 15:14, Job 9:25, Job 7:6, Genesis 47:9, Matthew 11:11, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Psalm 39:5
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Job 14:1
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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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Job 5:7
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7 People are born for trouble
    as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.

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Job 5:7
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7 Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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Ecclesiastes 2:23
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23 Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.

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Ecclesiastes 2:23
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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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Job 25:4
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4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
    Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

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Job 25:4
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4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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Job 7:1
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7 “Is not all human life a struggle?
    Our lives are like that of a hired hand,

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Job 7:1
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7 “Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)

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Psalm 51:5
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5 For I was born a sinner—
    yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

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Psalm 51:5
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5 Surely I was sinful(A) at birth,(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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Job 15:14
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14 Can any mortal be pure?
    Can anyone born of a woman be just?

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Job 15:14
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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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Job 9:25
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25 “My life passes more swiftly than a runner.
    It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.

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Job 9:25
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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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Job 7:6
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Job Cries Out to God

6 “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
    They end without hope.

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Job 7:6
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6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(A)
    and they come to an end without hope.(B)

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Genesis 47:9
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9 Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”

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Genesis 47:9
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9 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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Matthew 11:11
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11 “I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!

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Matthew 11:11
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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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Ecclesiastes 2:17
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17 So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless—like chasing the wind.

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Ecclesiastes 2:17
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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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Psalm 39:5
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5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.
    My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;
    at best, each of us is but a breath.” Interlude

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Psalm 39:5
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5 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.
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