Job 14:6-8

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“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

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“For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].
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“Though its roots grow old in the earth
And its stump dies in the dry soil,

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