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\c 14
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\q1
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\v 1 We humans are very frail. We are born, and
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\q2 we live only a short time; we experience much trouble.
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\q1
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\v 2 We disappear quickly, like flowers that grow from the ground quickly and then wither and die.
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\q2 We are like shadows that disappear when the sun stops shining.
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh, why do you keep watching me to see if I am doing something that is wrong ?
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\q2 Do you want to take me to court to judge me?
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\q1
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\v 4 No one can bring something acceptable to God out of something that is not acceptable to him.
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\q1
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\v 5 You have decided how long our lives will be.
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\q2 You have decided how many months we will live,
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\q2 and we cannot live longer than the time that you have decided.
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\v 6 So please stop examining us, and allow us to be alone
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\q2 so that we might enjoy our life of hard labor, if a hired worker can possibly do so.
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\q1
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\v 7 If we cut a tree down,
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\q2 sometimes we hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches.
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\v 8 Its roots in the ground may be very old,
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\q2 and its stump may decay,
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\v 9 but if some water falls on it,
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\q2 it may bud and send up shoots like a young plant.
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\q1
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\v 10 But when we people lose all our strength and die,
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\q2 we stop breathing, and then we are gone forever.
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\v 11 Just as water evaporates from a lake,
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\q2 or as a riverbed dries up,
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\v 12 people lie down and die and do not get up again.
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\q1 Until the heavens do not exist any longer;
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\q2 people who die do not wake up,
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\q2 and no one can wake them up.
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\q1
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\v 13 Yahweh, I wish that you would put me safely in the place of the dead and forget about me, so that I do not suffer any more
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\q2 until you are no longer angry with me.
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\q1 I wish that you would decide how much time I would spend there,
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\q2 and then remember that I am there.
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\v 14 When we humans die, we will certainly not live again.
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\q2 If I knew that we would live again, I would wait patiently
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\q2 for you to release me from my sufferings.
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\v 15 You would call me, and I would answer.
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\q2 You would be eager to see me, one of the creatures that you had made.
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\v 16 You would carefully see where I went,
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\q2 and you would not be interested in seeing whether I sinned or not.
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\v 17 The record of my sins would be sealed in a small bag,
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\q2 and you would cover them.
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\v 18 But, just as mountains crumble and rocks fall down from a cliff,
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\v 19 and just as water slowly wears away the stones, and just as floods wash away soil,
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\q2 you eventually destroy us; you do not allow us to continue to hope that we will keep on living.
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\v 20 You always defeat us, and then we die.
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\q2 You cause our faces to look ugly after we die,
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\q2 and you send us away.
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\v 21 When we die, we do not know if our sons will grow up and do things that will cause other people to honor them.
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\q2 Or if they become disgraced, we do not know that either.
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\v 22 We will feel our own pain; we will not feel anything else;
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\q2 we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else."
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