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Job 14:1-3
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Job Continues His Prayer

Life Is Short and Sorrowful

14 (A) Life is short and sorrowful
    for every living soul.
2 We are flowers that fade
    and shadows that vanish.
3 And so, I ask you, God,
    why pick on me?

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Job 14:1-3
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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)
2 They spring up like flowers(D) and wither away;(E)
    like fleeting shadows,(F) they do not endure.(G)
3 Do you fix your eye on them?(H)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(I)

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  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me
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