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    Lord, is this why You turn Your gaze on such a creature:
        to bring me,[a] a mere human being, alongside You for judgment?
    Who can take what is impure and defiled
        to fashion something pure and pristine?
        No one! We are, after all, so different in nature.
    Since a person’s life is fixed,
        and You are the One who determines the number of his months,
    And You set a limit on the length of her life,
        and since they are incapable of exceeding Your decree,

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  1. 14:3 Other manuscripts read, “him.”

Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)
Who can bring what is pure(C) from the impure?(D)
    No one!(E)
A person’s days are determined;(F)
    you have decreed the number of his months(G)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(H)

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