Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

“An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

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

“Were you the first man to be born,
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

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

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

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

“You know, for you were born then,
And the number of your days is great!