Job 14:4-8 Good News Bible (GNB)

4. Nothing clean can ever comefrom anything as unclean as human beings.

5. The length of their lives is decided beforehand —the number of months they will live.You have settled it, and it can't be changed.

6. Look away from them and leave them alone;let them enjoy their hard life — if they can.

7. There is hope for a tree that has been cut down;it can come back to life and sprout.

8. Even though its roots grow old,and its stump dies in the ground,

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