Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

Just as ye know, I too, know, I, fall not short, of you.

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them.

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.

"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Upon it [the] quiver rattles [along with] [the] flash of [the] spear and [the] short sword.

Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.