TKJU(i)
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 does you open your eyes upon such an 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 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 of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 Though its root wax old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;
9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dies, and wastes away: Yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
12 So man lies down, and rises not: Till heaven be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 You shall call, and I will answer you: You will have a desire to the work of your hands.
16 For now you number my steps: Do you not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
18 And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: You wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and 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 knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
22 But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.