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14 Human beings live only a short time,
and during that time they experience much trouble.
2 People live brief lives, like flowers that appear quickly but then wither and fall to the ground.
Yes, people’s lives are temporary, like shadows that appear only for a short time.
3 God, you do not need to watch fragile humans so carefully.
You do not need to judge everything that I do.
4 No one can make something that is acceptable to God out of something that is not acceptable to him.
5 You have decided how many days each human life will last.
Yes, you have decided how many months each person will live.
No one can live any longer than the time you have decided.
Because this is true,
6please stop watching people so closely.
Give them relief so that they can live out their brief lives in peace.
7 Now even after people cut a tree down,
it is possible for it to start growing again and make new branches.
8 Its roots in the ground may be very old,
and its stump may be decaying,
9 but when rain falls on it,
it may revive and send up shoots just as a young plant does.
10 But even the strongest people die.
They grow weak and stop breathing,
and then they are gone forever.
11 Just as water evaporates from a lake,
and just as a riverbed dries up,
12 so people die and do not become alive again.
Until the heavens do not exist any longer,
people who die will not come back to life.
No, no one will be able to make them alive again.
13 I wish that you, God, would put me safely in the place where dead people go and forget about me.
That way I would not suffer any more until you were no longer angry with me.
I wish that you would decide how much time I need to spend there
and then come and rescue me from that place.
14 I do not believe that we humans live again after we die.
If I knew that I would live again, I would wait patiently throughout this difficult life.
I would know that after I died, things would become different for me.
15 After I had been in the place where dead people go for the time you had determined, you would call for me, and I would answer you.
You would be eager to see me, one of the creatures that you had made.
16 Yes, then you would protect me wherever I went,
and you would not be watching to see whether I sinned or not.
17 You would forgive the things I had done wrong.
Yes, it would be as if I had not done them at all.
18 But just as mountains erode away and rocks tumble down slopes,
19 just as water wears away stones and floods wash away soil,
so you make all people die, even though they hope to keep living.
20 You make us age the whole time we are living, and then we die.
Yes, you make our faces show that we are old and about to die,
and then you make us go to the place where dead people go.
21 When we die, we do not know whether our children will grow up and do things that will cause other people to honor them.
If they do shameful things instead, we do not know that either.
22 When we die, we feel sorry for ourselves, but no one else feels sorry for us.
Yes, we grieve for ourselves, but no one else grieves for us.”
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