1. “A human being born of a woman is short of days and full of troubles.
2. Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
3. Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.
4. “Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
5. If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
6. Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
7. “Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
8. though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,