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[1]MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
[2]He comes forth like a flower, and withers and fades away; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
[3]And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring him into judgment with thee?
[4]Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
[5]Seeing his days are determined and the number of his months are decreed, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot trespass them;
[6]Turn thy face away from him, and his days will be spent like a hireling
[7]For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and its tender shoots will not cease.
[8]Though its root wax old in the earth and its stock die in the ground,
[9]Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth leaves like a plant;
[10]But man dies, and fades away; yea, man perishes, and he is no more.
[11]As the waters fail from the sea, and a river becomes desolate and dries up;
[12]So man who lies down does not rise again; until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
[13]O that thou wouldst hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldst keep me in a secret place until thy wrath is spent, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time and remember me!
[14]If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of his youth he waits till old age comes.
[15]If thou wouldst call me, I would answer thee; thou wilt think of the work of thy hands
[16]For now thou numberest not my steps: and thou keepest not watch over my sins.
[17]My transgressions are sealed up in a bag, and thou removest from me my sins.
[18]Truly a great mountain falls, and a rock moves out of its place.
[19]The waters wear away the stones and wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
[20]Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou castest him away with shame on his face.
[21]If his sons multiply, he does not know it; if they decrease, he perceives it not of them.
[22]But his flesh upon him shall have pal,, and his soul within him shall mourn
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