O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?

When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through Him who subjected it in hope;

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails together until now.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

If He should set His heart on it, if He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Nor is He served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

You return man to dust, and say, Return, O sons of men.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.