My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

But now, the sun cannot be looked at – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”