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Job continues to speak

14 Everyone that a woman gives birth to lives only for a short time.
    The days of his life are full of trouble.
He is like a flower that grows
    and then it soon dies.
His life quickly disappears like a shadow.
I am only a human like that,
    so why do you watch me so carefully?
Why do you want to bring me into a court to judge me?

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)
They spring up like flowers(D) and wither away;(E)
    like fleeting shadows,(F) they do not endure.(G)
Do you fix your eye on them?(H)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me