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“If only an unclean person could become clean![a]
    It’s not possible.
If the number of his days
    and the number of his months are determined by you,
        and you set his limit,
    then he cannot go past it.
Look away from him, and he will cease to be.[b]
    Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:4 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God. “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.
  2. Job 14:6 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)
A person’s days are determined;(D)
    you have decreed the number of his months(E)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(F)
So look away from him and let him alone,(G)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(H)

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