(A)Like a flower he comes out and withers.
He also flees like (B)a shadow and does not remain.

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They spring up like flowers(A) and wither away;(B)
    like fleeting shadows,(C) they do not endure.(D)

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10 But (A)a man dies and lies prostrate.
A person (B)passes away, and where is he?
11 As (C)water [a]evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,
12 So (D)a man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens no longer exist,
[b]He will not awake nor be woken from [c]his sleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:11 Lit disappears
  2. Job 14:12 Lit They
  3. Job 14:12 Lit their

10 But a man dies and is laid low;(A)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(B)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(C)
12 so he lies down and does not rise;(D)
    till the heavens are no more,(E) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.(F)

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