- 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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