Job 14:11-13

The Voice

¹¹        Just as water evaporates from the sea,
    And riverbeds go parched and dry,
¹²        so humankind lies down and does not rise again.
    Until the day when the skies are done away with,
        humankind will neither awaken nor rouse from slumber.

¹³    O that You would merely hide me in the land of the dead
        and keep me in secret till Your wrath is gone,
        until a time You decide when You might think upon me.

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