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Like a flower that springs up and fades,(A)
    swift as a shadow that does not abide.
Upon such a one will you set your eyes,
    bringing me into judgment before you?
Can anyone make the unclean clean?(B)
    No one can.

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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