What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just before the Mighty God? Or how can one be pure who is born of a woman?

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Immerser; but he who is least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Is there not warfare for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are used up without hope.

Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man, even though standing tall, is total vanity. Selah.

yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is evil to me; for all is vanity and striving of spirit.

For all his days are sorrows, and his task grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This also is vanity.