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| [1]Man that is born of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble. |
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| [2]He shooteth forth as a flower, and is cut down: he vanisheth also as a shadow, and continueth not. |
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| [3]And yet thou openest thine eyes upon such one, and causest me to enter into judgment with thee. |
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| [4]Who can bring a clean thing out of filthiness? There is not one. |
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| [5]Are not his days determined? The number of his months are with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds, which he cannot pass. |
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| [6]Turn from him that he may cease until his desired day, as an hireling. |
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| [7]For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will yet sprout, and the branches thereof will not cease. |
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| [8]Though the root of it wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof be dead in the ground, |
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| [9]Yet by the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. |
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| [10]But man is sick, and dieth, and man perisheth, and where is he? |
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| [11]As the waters pass from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth up, |
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| [12]So man sleepeth and riseth not: for he shall not wake again, nor be raised from his sleep till the heaven be no more. |
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| [13]Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, and keep me secret, until thy wrath were past, and wouldest give me term, and remember me. |
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| [14]If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of mine appointed time will I wait, till my changing shall come. |
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| [15]Thou shalt call me, and I shall answer thee: thou lovest the work of thine own hands. |
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| [16]But now thou numberest my steps, and dost not delay my sins. |
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| [17]Mine iniquity is sealed up, as in a bag, and thou addest unto my wickedness. |
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| [18]And surely as the mountain that falleth, cometh to naught, and the rock that is removed from his place: |
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| [19]As the water breaketh the stones, when thou overflowest the things which grow in the dust of the earth: so thou destroyest the hope of man. |
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| [20]Thou prevailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away. |
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| [21]And he knoweth not if his sons shall be honorable, neither shall he understand concerning them, whether they shall be of low degree, |
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| [22]But while his flesh is upon him, he shall be sorrowful, and while his soul is in him, it shall mourn. |
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