The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 homo natus de muliere brevi vivens tempore repletus multis miseriis
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"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 quasi flos egreditur et conteritur et fugit velut umbra et numquam in eodem statu permanet
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He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
3 et dignum ducis super huiuscemodi aperire oculos tuos et adducere eum tecum in iudicium
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And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
4 quis potest facere mundum de inmundo conceptum semine nonne tu qui solus es
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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
5 breves dies hominis sunt numerus mensuum eius apud te est constituisti terminos eius qui praeterire non poterunt
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Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
6 recede paululum ab eo ut quiescat donec optata veniat sicut mercennarii dies eius
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look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
7 lignum habet spem si praecisum fuerit rursum virescit et rami eius pullulant
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"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
8 si senuerit in terra radix eius et in pulvere emortuus fuerit truncus illius
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Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
9 ad odorem aquae germinabit et faciet comam quasi cum primum plantatum est
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yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
10 homo vero cum mortuus fuerit et nudatus atque consumptus ubi quaeso est
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But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
11 quomodo si recedant aquae de mari et fluvius vacuefactus arescat
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As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 sic homo cum dormierit non resurget donec adteratur caelum non evigilabit nec consurget de somno suo
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so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
13 quis mihi hoc tribuat ut in inferno protegas me ut abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei
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Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 putasne mortuus homo rursum vivet cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito expecto donec veniat inmutatio mea
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If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
15 vocabis et ego respondebo tibi operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram
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Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
16 tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti sed parces peccatis meis
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For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
17 signasti quasi in sacculo delicta mea sed curasti iniquitatem meam
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my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
18 mons cadens defluet et saxum transfertur de loco suo
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"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
19 lapides excavant aquae et adluvione paulatim terra consumitur et homines ergo similiter perdes
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the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 roborasti eum paululum ut in perpetuum pertransiret inmutabis faciem eius et emittes eum
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Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21 sive nobiles fuerint filii eius sive ignobiles non intelleget
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His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22 attamen caro eius dum vivet dolebit et anima illius super semet ipso lugebit
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He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."
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