“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.