1 “Adam (man), who is yalad (birth / begot) of a ayashah (woman / wife), is of qatzar (few) yamayam (days), and shabai (full) of ragaz (trouble).
2 He yatzaa (go out / come out) forth like a tzayatz (flower), and is namal (cut) down. He also barach (flees) like a tzal (shadow), and doesn't imad (continue).
3 Do you paqach (open) your iyan (eye) on such a zah (this / that / these), and bawaa (bring) me into mashapat (judgment) with you?
4 Who can nathan (give) a tahawar (clean) thing out of an tamaa (unclean)? Not achad (one).
5 Am (mother) his yawam (day) are charatz (determined), the masapar (number) of his chadash (month) is with you, and you ishah (make) appointed his chaq (statute) that he can't ibar (pass over/through);
6 Shaih (look) away from him, that he may chadal (rest), until he shall ratzah (accomplish), as a shakayar (hireling), his yawam (day).
7 “For there is thaqawah (hope) for a itz (tree), If it is karath (cut) down, that it will chalap (sprout) again, that the tender yawanaqath (branch) of it will not chadal (cease).
8 Though its sharash (root) grows zaqan (old) in the aratz (Earth/land), and its gazai (stock) mawath (death) in the ipar (ground),
9 Yet through the rayach (smell) of mayam (Waters) it will parach (bud), and ishah (make) forth qatzayar (boughs) like a natai (plant).
10 But gabar (man) mawath (death), and is laid low. Yes, adam (man) gawai (gives) up the spirit, and where is he?
11 As the mayam (Waters) azal (fail) from the yam (sea/waters), and the nahar (river) charab (wastes) and yabash (dry land) up,
12 So ayash (man / husband) shakab (lies) down and doesn't qawam (rise up). Until the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) are no more, they shall not qawatz (awake), nor be roused out of their shanah (sleep).
13 “Oh that you would tzapan (hide) me in shaawal (Sheol / afterlife), that you would sathar (keep) me secret, until your ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting) is shawab (turn), that you would shayath (put / appoint / make) me a chaq (statute) time, and zakar (remember) me!
14 If a gabar (man) mawath (death), shall he chayah (live) again? All the yamay (days) of my tzabaa (troop) would I yachal (wait), until my release should bawaa (bring).
15 You would qaraa (called), and I would inah (answer / respond) you. You would have a kasap (desire) to the maishah (work) of your yad (hand).
16 But now you sapar (book) my tzaid (steps). Don't you shamar (keep/guard) over my chataah (sin)?
17 My disobedience is chatham (sealed) up in a tzarawar (bag). You fasten up my iwan (guilt/iniquity).
18 “But the har (mountain) napal (fall / be cast down) nabal (comes) to nothing. The tzawar (rock) is ithaq (removed) out of its maqawam (place);
19 The mayam (Waters) shachaq (wear) the abanayam (stones). The torrents of it shatap (wash) away the ipar (dust) of the aratz (Earth/land). So you abad (destroy / perish) the thaqawah (hope) of anawash (man).
20 You natzach (forever) thaqap (prevail) against him, and he departs. You shanah (change) his panayam (face), and shalach (send) him away.
21 His ban (son) kabad (come) to honor, and he doesn't yadai (know) it. They are tzair (brought) low, but he doesn't bayan (between) it of them.
22 But his bashar (flesh) on him kaab (has) pain, and his napash (soul) inside him abal (mourns).”