14"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.H120H3205H802H7116H3117H7649H72672He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.H3318H6731H5243H1272H6738H59753Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment?H6491H5869H2088H935H49414Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!H5414H2889H2931H2595Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.H518H3117H2782H4557H2320H6213H2706H56746So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.H8159H2308H7521H7916H31177"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.H3426H8615H6086H3772H2498H3127H23088Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,H8328H2204H776H1503H4191H60839yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.H7381H4325H6524H6213H7105H519410But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.H1397H4191H2522H120H147811As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,H4325H235H3220H5104H2717H300112so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.H376H7901H6965H8064H1115H6974H5782H814213"If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!H5414H6845H7585H5641H639H7725H7896H2706H214214If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.H1397H4191H2421H3117H6635H3176H2487H93515You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.H7121H6030H3700H4639H302716Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.H5608H6806H8104H240317My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.H6588H2856H6872H2950H577118"But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,H199H2022H5307H5034H6697H6275H472519as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.H4325H7833H68H7857H5599H6083H776H6H8615H58220You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away.H8630H5331H1980H8138H6440H797121If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.H1121H3513H3045H6819H99522He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself."H1320H3510H5315H56