1<\/sup>Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.<\/span> <\/p>\n