Job 14:1-3

The Voice

14 Job: Humankind, born of woman,
        has a few brief years with much suffering.
²     Like a short-lived bloom,
        he springs up only to wither;
        like the brief shade gained by a fast-moving cloud,
        he passes swiftly.
³     Lord, is this why You turn Your gaze on such a creature:
        to bring me,^[a] a mere human being, alongside You for judgment?