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Job 14:3 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? "
Job 14:3
Verse in Context
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1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
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Job 14:1
"“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble."
Job 14:2
"He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue."
Job 14:4
"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."
Job 14:5
"Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass."
Job 14:6
"Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day."
Job 14:7
"“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease."
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