22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you answer me.

23 How many vices and sins do I have? show me my iniquity and my sin.

24 Why dost thou hide thy face, and consider me thy enemy?

25 Do you not break a plucked leaf, and pursue a dry straw?

26 For thou hast written bitter things against me, and hast imputed to me the sins of my youth,

27 And thou hast set my feet in the stock, and hast watched all my paths, and hast pursued in the footsteps of my feet.

28 And he, like rot, disintegrates, like a garment eaten by moths.

Chapter 14

1 A man born of a woman is short of days, and is full of sorrows.

2 Like a flower, it goes out and falls; runs away like a shadow and does not stop.

3 And against him dost thou open thy eyes, and bring me to judgment with thee?

4 Who shall be born clean of uncleanness? None.

5 If the days are fixed for him, and the number of his months are with you, if you have set a limit for him, which he will not pass over,

6 then thou shalt turn away from him, and let him rest until he has finished his day as a hireling.

7 There is hope for the tree, that if it be cut down, it will come to life again, and the branches will not cease to come out of it:

8 Though its root be old in the ground, and its stump is frozen in the dust,

9 But as soon as it smells the water, it sprouts and sprouts branches, as if it were planted anew.

10 But man dies and disintegrates; departed, and where is he?

11 And the waters of the lake go away, and the river dries up and dries up.

12 so shall a man lie down, and shall not be; until the end of heaven he will not awake and will not rise from his sleep.

13 Oh, that Thou wouldst hide me in hell, and hid me until Thy wrath was past, set a time for me, and then remembered me!