Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}

For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?

{Is there} not an appointed time to man upon earth? {are not} his days also like the days of an hireling? {an appointed...: or, a warfare}

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun {is} grievous unto me: for all {is} vanity and vexation of spirit.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}

Come unto me, all {ye} that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}

For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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;

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. {that God...: or, that they might clear God, and see, etc}

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it {is} man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;