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Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes,
    those who die[a] will not come back.

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  1. 7:9 Hebrew who go down to Sheol.

As a cloud vanishes(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave(B) does not return.(C)

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14 All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.

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14 Like water(A) spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.(B) But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person(C) does not remain banished from him.

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13 Leave me alone so I can smile again
    before I am gone and exist no more.

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13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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15     I live in terror now.
My honor has blown away in the wind,
    and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.

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15 Terrors(A) overwhelm me;(B)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(C)

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22 For soon I must go down that road
    from which I will never return.

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22 “Only a few years will pass
    before I take the path of no return.(A)

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10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
    They breathe their last, and then where are they?
11 As water evaporates from a lake
    and a river disappears in drought,
12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
    Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
    nor be roused from their sleep.

13 “I wish you would hide me in the grave[a]
    and forget me there until your anger has passed.
    But mark your calendar to think of me again!
14 Can the dead live again?
    If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
    and I would eagerly await the release of death.

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  1. 14:13 Hebrew in Sheol.

10 But a man dies and is laid low;(A)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(B)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(C)
12 so he lies down and does not rise;(D)
    till the heavens are no more,(E) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.(F)

13 “If only you would hide me in the grave(G)
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!(H)
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember(I) me!(J)
14 If someone dies, will they live again?
    All the days of my hard service(K)
    I will wait for my renewal[a](L) to come.

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  1. Job 14:14 Or release

21 before I leave—never to return—
    for the land of darkness and utter gloom.

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21 before I go to the place of no return,(A)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(B)

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23 But why should I fast when he is dead? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him one day, but he cannot return to me.”

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23 But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him,(A) but he will not return to me.”(B)

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11 I said, “Never again will I see the Lord God
    while still in the land of the living.
Never again will I see my friends
    or be with those who live in this world.

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11 I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself(A)
    in the land of the living;(B)
no longer will I look on my fellow man,
    or be with those who now dwell in this world.

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11 He loads the clouds with moisture,
    and they flash with his lightning.

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11 He loads the clouds with moisture;(A)
    he scatters his lightning(B) through them.(C)

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Such knowledge is higher than the heavens—
    and who are you?
It is deeper than the underworld[a]
    what do you know?

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  1. 11:8 Hebrew than Sheol.

They are higher(A) than the heavens(B) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below(C)—what can you know?(D)

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