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Job Continues: Consider My Frail Human Nature, God

14 “A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
He comes up like a flower; then he withers.
He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.
You observe this
and call me to account to you.

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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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Footnotes

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