²⁰ Are not my days few? Stop!
    Let me alone, that I may recover a little

¹⁴ How can any mortal be blameless,^(A)
    anyone born of woman be righteous?^(B)

⁵ Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days,
    that I may learn how frail I am.
⁶ To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days;
    indeed, my life is as nothing before you.
    Every man is but a breath.^(A)
Selah

⁴⁶ You cut short the days of his youth,
    covered him with shame.
Selah
V

¹     For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:^[a]
“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;^(A)
    there is no remedy for our dying,
    nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.