But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he?

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

“Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

“Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

Men of understanding say to me – any wise man listening to me says –

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,