O Lord, in Your good pleasure You added strength to my beauty; but You turned away Your face, and I was troubled.

Why do You hide Yourself from me, and regard me [as] Your enemy?

And He will give quiet, and who will condemn? And He will hide His face, and who shall see Him? Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man, also:

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but on account of Him who subjected it in hope;

For we know that all the creation groans together and labors in birth together until now.

His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

For if He would confine, and restrain His Spirit with Himself;

all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, from where he was formed.

[before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

nor by the hands of men is He served, as though He needed anything, for He gives to all life, and breath, with respect to all things.

Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas You said, Return, you sons of men?

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.