1“We humans are very frail.
2We disappear quickly, like flowers that grow from the ground quickly and then wither and die [SIM].
3Yahweh, why do you keep watching me to see if I am doing something that is wrong [RHQ]?
4People are sinners from the time when they are born;
5You have decided how long our lives will be.
6So please stop examining us, and allow us to be alone,
7If someone cuts a tree down,
8Its roots in the ground may be very old,
9but if some water falls on it,
10But when we people lose all our strength and die,
11Just like water evaporates from the ocean,
12people lie down and die and do not get up again.
13“Yahweh, I wish that you would put me safely in the place of the dead and forget about me
14When we humans die, we will certainly not live again [RHQ].
15You would call me, and I would answer.
16You would take care of [MET] me,
17It is as though the record of my sins would be sealed in a small bag,
18“But, just like mountains crumble and rocks fall down from a cliff,
19and just like water slowly wears away the stones, and just like floods wash away soil,
20You always defeat us, and then we die [EUP].
21When we die we do not know if our sons will grow up and do things that will cause them to be honored.
22We will feel our own pains; we will not feel anything else;