So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee. {ignorant: Heb. I knew not} {before Heb. with}

Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed {is} the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat {of} it all the days of thy life;

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. {He...: Heb. The soul shall}

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou judgest.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee. {ignorant: Heb. I knew not} {before Heb. with}

Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born {like} a wild ass's colt. {vain: Heb. empty}

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, {and} reputed vile in your sight?

Man {that is} in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts {that} perish.