MLV(i)
1 Man, who 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 too flees as a shadow and does not continue.
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? Not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, 6 look away from him, that he may rest, till he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the offshoots of it will not cease. 8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth and the trunk of it dies in the ground, 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud and put forth limbs like a plant. 10 But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come. 15 You would call and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands. 16 But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and you fasten up my iniquity. 18 But the falling mountain comes to nothing and the rock is removed out of its place.
19 The waters wear the stones. The overflowing of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. 20 You prevail forever against him and he passes. You change his countenance and send him away. 21 His sons come to honor and he does not know it and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them. 22 But his flesh upon him has pain and his soul within him mourns.
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? Not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you and you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, 6 look away from him, that he may rest, till he will accomplish, as a hireling, his day. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the offshoots of it will not cease. 8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth and the trunk of it dies in the ground, 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud and put forth limbs like a plant. 10 But man dies and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the river wastes away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come. 15 You would call and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands. 16 But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and you fasten up my iniquity. 18 But the falling mountain comes to nothing and the rock is removed out of its place.
19 The waters wear the stones. The overflowing of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. 20 You prevail forever against him and he passes. You change his countenance and send him away. 21 His sons come to honor and he does not know it and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them. 22 But his flesh upon him has pain and his soul within him mourns.