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class="text">flees like a shadow and does not last.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Do you fix your eyes on such a one?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Do you bring me into judgment with you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">No one can.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Since their days are determined,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the number of their months is known to you,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>look away from them, and desist,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15258a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“For there is hope for a tree,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and that its shoots will not cease.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Though its root grows old in the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and its stump dies in the ground,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>yet at the scent of water it will bud</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and put forth branches like a young plant.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>But mortals die, and are laid low;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">humans expire, and where are they?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>As waters fail from a lake,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and a river wastes away and dries up,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>so mortals lie down and do not rise again;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">until the heavens are no more, they will not awake</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or be roused out of their sleep.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>O that you would hide me in Sheol,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that you would conceal me until your wrath is past,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>If mortals die, will they live again?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">All the days of my service I would wait</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">until my release should come.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>You would call, and I would answer you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you would long for the work of your hands.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For then you would not<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15268b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> number my steps,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you would not keep watch over my sin;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you would cover over my iniquity.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>“But the mountain falls and crumbles away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the rock is removed from its place;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>the waters wear away the stones;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so you destroy the hope of mortals.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You prevail forever against them, and they pass away;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you change their countenance, and send them away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>They feel only the pain of their own bodies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and mourn only for themselves.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 14:6">Job 14:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>that they may desist</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 14:16">Job 14:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb lacks <i>not</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National 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