13:20 Only in two things spare me,
and then I will not hide from your face:
13:21 Remove
and stop making me afraid with your terror.
13:22 Then call,
or I will speak, and you respond to me.
13:23 How many are my
Show me my transgression and my sin.
13:24 Why do you hide your face
and regard me as your enemy?
13:25 Do you wish to torment
and chase after dry chaff?
13:26 For you write down
and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
13:27 And you put my feet in the stocks
and you watch all my movements;
you put marks
13:28 So I
like a garment eaten by moths.
14:1 “Man, born of woman,
lives but a few days,
14:2 He grows up
he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
14:3 Do you fix your eye
And do you bring me
14:4 Who can make
No one!
14:5 Since man’s days
the number of his months is under your control;
you have set his limit
14:6 Look away from him and let him desist,
until he fulfills
14:7 “But there is hope for
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not fail.
14:8 Although its roots may grow old
and its stump begins to die
14:9 at the scent
and put forth
14:10 But man
he expires – and where is he?
14:11 As
or a river drains away and dries up,
14:12 so man lies down and does not rise;
until the heavens are no more,
they
nor arise from their sleep.
14:13 “O that
and conceal me till your anger has passed!
O that you would set me a time
and then remember me!
14:14 If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my hard service
until my release comes.
14:15 You will call
you will long for
14:16 “Surely now you count my steps;
then you would not mark
14:17 My offenses would be sealed up
you would cover over
14:18 But as
and as a rock will be removed from its place,
14:19 as water wears away stones,
and torrents
so you destroy man’s hope.
14:20 You overpower him once for all,
and he departs;
you change
and send him away.
14:21 If
he does not know it;
if they are brought low,
he does not see
14:22 Only his flesh has pain for himself,
and he mourns for himself.”