1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3. And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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 you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6. Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7. For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.
8. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;
9. Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.
10. But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?