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14:1  “A mortal born of woman, is of few days and full of turmoil.
14:2  Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.
14:3  Do You fix Your eyes on such a one, and bring me for judgment with You?
14:4  Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!
14:5  Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, You have set his limits, which he cannot exceed.
14:6  Look away from him and let him alone, until he fulfills his time like a hired laborer.
14:7  “At least there is hope for a tree— if it is cut down it will sprout again, and its shoots will not cease.
14:8  Though its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the dry ground,
14:9  at the scent of water it will bud and sprout sprigs like a new plant.
14:10  But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?
14:11  As water evaporates from the sea and a river drains away and dries up,
14:12  so a person lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, people will not awake, or be roused from their sleep.
14:13  “Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me until Your wrath has passed! Oh that You would set a time for me and then remember me!
14:14  If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard labor I will wait until my relief comes.
14:15  You will call and I—I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.
14:16  For then You will number my steps; You will not keep track of my sin;
14:17  my transgression will be sealed in a bundle and cover over my iniquity.
14:18  “Yet as a mountain falls away and crumbles and a rock is moved from its place,
14:19  as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a person’s hope.
14:20  You overpower him—once for all, and he perishes; You change his appearance and send him away.
14:21  If his sons achieve honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not perceive it.
14:22  He only feels pain for his own flesh, and mourns for his own soul.”