1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2. He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
3. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?
4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
5. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
6. If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.
7. For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.
8. Though its root waxes old in the earth and its trunk is dead in the ground,