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"How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! |
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We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear. |
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Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me? |
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Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one! |
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You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer. |
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So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace. |
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"Even a tree has more hope! If it is cut down, it will sprout again and grow new branches. |
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Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays, |
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at the scent of water it will bud and sprout again like a new seedling. |
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"But when people die, their strength is gone. They breathe their last, and then where are they? |
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As water evaporates from a lake and a river disappears in drought, |
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people are laid to rest and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up nor be roused from their sleep. |
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"I wish you would hide me in the grave and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again! |
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Can the dead live again? If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death. |
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You would call and I would answer, and you would yearn for me, your handiwork. |
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For then you would guard my steps, instead of watching for my sins. |
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My sins would be sealed in a pouch, and you would cover my guilt. |
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"But instead, as mountains fall and crumble and as rocks fall from a cliff, |
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as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people's hope. |
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You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene. You disfigure them in death and send them away. |
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They never know if their children grow up in honor or sink to insignificance. |
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They suffer painfully; their life is full of trouble." |
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