Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’

“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).

“For man is born for trouble,
[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.

“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man],
Or were you created before the hills?

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

“When he is carried to his grave,
A guard will keep watch over his tomb.

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured my chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

“You [must] know, since you were born then,
And because you are so extremely old!