Job 14:1

⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁴How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

²³For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

¹“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

¹¹Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

²⁵“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

⁵Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.