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As the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;(A)

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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 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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 Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again,
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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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 Terrors are turned upon me;
    my honor is pursued as by the wind,
    and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.(A)

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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 when a few years have come,
    I shall go the way from which I shall not return.(A)

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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 mortals die and are laid low;
    humans expire, and where are they?(A)
11 As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,(B)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
    until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
    or be roused out of their sleep.(C)
13 O that you would hide me in Sheol,
    that you would conceal me until your wrath is past,
    that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!(D)
14 If mortals die, will they live again?
    All the days of my service I would wait
    until my release should come.(E)

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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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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:14 Or release

21 before I go, never to return,
    to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

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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 now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”(A)

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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, I shall not see the Lord
    in the land of the living;
I shall look upon mortals no more
    among the inhabitants of the world.(A)

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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 thick cloud with moisture;
    the clouds scatter his lightning.(A)

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

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It is higher than heaven[a]—what can you do?
    Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.8 Heb The heights of heaven

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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