1 A great anxiety has God allotted,and a heavy yoke, to the children of Adam,From the day they leave their mother’s wombuntil the day they return to the mother of all the living.
2 Troubled thoughts and fear of heart are theirsand anxious foreboding until death.
3 Whether one sits on a lofty throneor grovels in dust and ashes,
4 Whether one wears a splendid crownor is clothed in the coarsest of garments—
5 There is wrath and envy, trouble and dread,terror of death, fury and strife.Even when one lies on his bed to rest,his cares disturb his sleep at night.