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Chapter 14
1Man born of woman is short-lived and sated with trouble.
2He blossoms like a flower and withers;He vanishes like a shadow and does not endure.
3Do You fix Your gaze on such a one?Will You go to law with me?
4Who can produce a clean thing out of an unclean one? No one!
5His days are determined;You know the number of his months;You have set him limits that he cannot pass.
6Turn away from him, that he may be at easeUntil, like a hireling, he finishes out his day.
7There is hope for a tree;If it is cut down it will renew itself;Its shoots will not cease.
8If its roots are old in the earth,And its stump dies in the ground,
9At the scent of water it will budAnd produce branches like a sapling.
10But mortals languish and die;Man expires; where is he?
11The waters of the sea fail,And the river dries up and is parched.
12So man lies down never to rise;He will awake only when the heavens are no more,Only then be aroused from his sleep.
13O that You would hide me in Sheol,Conceal me until Your anger passes,Set me a fixed time to attend to me.
14If a man dies, can he live again?All the time of my service I waitUntil my replacement comes.
15You would call and I would answer You;You would set Your heart on Your handiwork.
16Then You would not count my steps,Or keep watch over my sin.
17My transgression would be sealed up in a pouch;You would coat over my iniquity.
18Mountains collapse and crumble;Rocks are dislodged from their place.
19Water wears away stone;Torrents wash away earth;So you destroy man’s hope,
20You overpower him forever and he perishes;You alter his visage and dispatch him.
21His sons attain honor and he does not know it;They are humbled and he is not aware of it.
22He feels only the pain of his flesh,And his spirit mourns in him.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).