Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.