¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

¹Čovjek koga je žena rodila kratka je vijeka i pun nevolja.

²He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

²K'o cvijet je nikao i vene već, poput sjene bježi ne zastajuć'.

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

³Na takva, zar, ti oči otvaraš i preda se na sud ga izvodiš?

⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁴Tko će čisto izvuć' iz nečista? Nitko!

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

⁵Pa kad su njegovi dani odbrojeni, kad mu broj mjeseci o tebi ovisi, kad mu granicu stavljaš neprijelaznu,

⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁶skini s njega pogled da počinut' može, poput najamnika da svoj dan uživa.

⁷“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

⁷TÓa ni drvu nije nada sva propala, posječeno, ono opet prozeleni i mladice nove iz njega izbiju.

⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

⁸Ako mu korijen i ostari u zemlji, ako mu se panj i sasuši u prahu,

⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

⁹oćutjevši vodu, ono će propupat' i pustiti grane kao stablo novo.

¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹⁰Al' kad čovjek umre, ostaje pokošen, kad smrtnik izdahne, gdje li je on tada?

¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

¹¹Može sva voda iz mora ispariti i presahnut' rijeke, isušit posvema',

¹²so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹²al' čovjek kad legne, ne ustaje više, dok nebesa bude, neće se podići, od sna se svojega probuditi neće.

¹³“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹³O, kad bi me htio skriti u Šeolu, zakloniti me dok srdžba ti ne mine, dÓati mi rok kad ćeš me se spomenuti,

¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

¹⁴- jer, kad umre čovjek, zar uskrsnut' može? - čekao bih te sve dane vojske svoje dok ne bi došao da mi smjenu dadeš.

¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁵Zvao bi me, a ja bih se odazvao: zaželio si se djela svojih ruku.

¹⁶But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

¹⁶A sad nad svakim mojim vrebaš korakom, nijednog mi grijeha nećeš oprostiti,

¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

¹⁷u vreći si prijestup moj zapečatio i krivicu moju svu si zapisao.

¹⁸“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

¹⁸Vaj! K'o što se jednom uruši planina, k'o što se hridina s mjesta svog odvali,

¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

¹⁹k'o što voda kamen s vremenom istroši, a pljusak bujicom zemlju svu sapere, tako uništavaš nadu u čovjeku.

²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

²⁰Oborio si ga - on ode za svagda, nagrđena lica, otjeran, odbačen.

²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

²¹Djecu mu poštuju - o tom ništa ne zna; ako su prezrena - o tom ne razmišlja.

²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

²²On jedino pati zbog svojega tijela, on jedino tuži zbog svojeg života."