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

“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

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

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

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

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,