⁵ If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

⁴ `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

²¹ For what `is' his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

²⁶ He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

¹⁸ and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?

³⁶ `And the king hath done according to his will, and exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that which is determined hath been done.

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,

²⁶ This `is' the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

³⁵ and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

⁹ A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

¹³ And He `is' in one `mind', And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth `it'.

¹⁴ For He doth complete my portion, And many such things `are' with Him.

¹⁴ If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

¹⁰ In whose hand `is' the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

¹ Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?