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What does Job 14:5 mean?

"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 14:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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;

6

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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.

8

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

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