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He comes up like a flower; then he withers.
He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.
You observe this
and call me to account to you.

“If only an unclean person could become clean![a]
It’s not possible.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:4 Unclean   ” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God. “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.

They spring up like flowers(A) and wither away;(B)
    like fleeting shadows,(C) they do not endure.(D)
Do you fix your eye on them?(E)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(F)
Who can bring what is pure(G) from the impure?(H)
    No one!(I)

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Footnotes

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