¹¹ Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

¹⁴ For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

¹⁶ The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

²³ He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

⁵ You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

⁵ ...

⁶ In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

⁷ We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

⁸ You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

⁹ For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

¹⁰ The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

⁴ As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

¹⁶ Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

²⁸ Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

²⁰ Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.