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He springs up[a] like a flower and then withers.[b]
    Like a shadow, he disappears[c] and doesn’t last.
Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this—
    to bring me into a legal fight with you?
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing?
    No one!

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  1. Job 14:2 Lit. goes out
  2. Job 14:2 Lit. is cut off
  3. Job 14:2 Lit. flees

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