²² And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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 also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

³ Do you open your eyes on 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 can't pass;

⁶ Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁷ "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

⁸ Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

⁹ yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs 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 and dries up,

¹² so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹³ "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

¹⁵ You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.