Job 14:2-4

The Voice

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?
⁴     Who can take what is impure and defiled
        to fashion something pure and pristine?
        No one! We are, after all, so different in nature.