1. “Man, born of woman,lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
2. He grows up like a flower and then withers away;he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
3. Do you fix your eye on such a one?And do you bring me before you for judgment?
4. Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean?No one!
5. Since man’s days are determined,the number of his months is under your control;you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
6. Look away from him and let him desist,until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
7. “But there is hope for a tree:If it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its new shoots will not fail.
8. Although its roots may grow old in the groundand its stump begins to die in the soil,