⁷ but humans are born to trouble
    just as sparks^[a] fly upward.^(A)

⁴ How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?^(A)

7 “Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
    and are not their days like the days of a laborer?^(A)

⁵ Indeed, I was born guilty,
    a sinner when my mother conceived me.^(A)

¹⁴ What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?^(A)

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.^[a](A)