1Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: He flees also as a shadow, and does not continue. 3And do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you? 4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. 5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; 6Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he will accomplish, as a hired worker, his day. 7For there is hope of a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender branch will not cease. 8Though its root waxes old in the earth, And its stock dies in the ground; 9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant. 10But [noble] man dies, and is laid low: Yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he? 11[As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up; 12So man lies down and does not rise: Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep. 13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14If a [noble] man die, will he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait, Until my release should come. 15You would call, and I would answer you: You would have a desire to the work of your hands. 16But now you number my steps: Don't you watch over my sin? 17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And you fasten up my iniquity. 18But the mountain falling comes to nothing; And the rock is removed out of its place; 19The waters wear the stones; The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of common man. 20You prevail forever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance, and send him away. 21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; And they are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them. 22But his flesh on him has pain, And his soul inside him mourns.