Job 14:11

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As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,

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so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.

And the waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?