| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"You also open Your eyes on him And bring him into judgment with Yourself. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"But man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and where is he? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no longer, He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and remember me! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my change comes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"For now You number my steps, You do not observe my sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You wrap up my iniquity. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"But the falling mountain crumbles away, And the rock moves from its place; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy man's hope. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it; Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"But his body pains him, And he mourns only for himself." |
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