Thomson(i)
3 Wilt thou turn man away to despondency; when thou hast said, Return ye sons of men?
4 Since in thy sight a thousand years are but as yesterday which is past; or as a watch in the night:
5 shall these trifling years of theirs be as if in the morning, a green herb passed away?
6 Should it in the morning bloom and pass away? In the evening it would have fallen, withered and become dry.
7 Because we have fallen short by thine anger, and by thine indignation have been troubled;
8 thou hast placed our iniquities before thee: let this age of ours be for the light of thy countenance.
9 Because all our days have fallen short; and we have failed by thine indignation; our years have exercised themselves like a spider.
10 The days of these years of ours are seventy years: and if by reason of strength they be eighty years; still the surplus of them is labour and sorrow. Because gentleness hath come upon us: let us, therefore,