Thematic Bible: The brevity of life
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Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue. And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee? read more.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease. Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease. Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?