1. We are all born weak and helpless.All lead the same short, troubled life.
2. We grow and wither as quickly as flowers;we disappear like shadows.
3. Will you even look at me, God,or put me on trial and judge me?
4. Nothing clean can ever comefrom anything as unclean as human beings.
5. The length of their lives is decided beforehand —the number of months they will live.You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
6. Look away from them and leave them alone;let them enjoy their hard life — if they can.
7. There is hope for a tree that has been cut down;it can come back to life and sprout.
8. Even though its roots grow old,and its stump dies in the ground,
9. with water it will sprout like a young plant.
10. But people die, and that is the end of them;they die, and where are they then?
11. Like rivers that stop running,and lakes that go dry,