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14 “We are all human beings.[a]
    Our life is short and full of trouble.
Our life is like a flower that grows quickly and then dies away.
    Our life is like a shadow that is here for a short time and then is gone.
God, do you need to keep an eye on something so small?
    Why bother to bring charges against me?

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  1. Job 14:1 human beings Literally, “born of woman.”

14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)
They spring up like flowers(D) and wither away;(E)
    like fleeting shadows,(F) they do not endure.(G)
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