and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born,

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

Art thou the first man that ever was born? Or, wast thou made before the hills?

What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,

Knowest thou, when thou wast born, how old thou shouldest be?