Fifth lesson | Man born of woman, living for a brief time

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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by David Wyatt

Lectio Quinta

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG FRE

Homo, natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore, 
repletur multis miseriis.
Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur,
et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.
Et dignum ducis super hujusquemodi aperire oculos tuos,
et adducere eum tecum in judicium?
Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine?
Nonne tu, qui solus es?  Breves dies hominis sunt,
numerus mensium ejus apud te est:
constituisti terminos ejus, qui praeteriri non poterunt.
Recede ergo paululum ab eo, ut quiescat,
donec optata veniat, 
et sicut mercenarii, dies ejus.

Text Authorship:

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Job 14: 1-6 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Lectio Quinta", published 1582, from Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae, no. 5. [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Cinquième lecture", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Fifth lesson", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
Line count: 13
Word count: 85

Fifth lesson

Language: English after the Latin

Man born of woman, living for a brief time, 
is filled with many troubles.
He comes out like a flower and is cut down; 
he flees like a shadow and never remains in the same place.
Do you think it is worth opening your eyes on someone of this kind,
And bringing him to trial with you?
Who can make something clean if it is born from an unclean seed?
Are you not the only one? The days of a man are brief,
The number of his months is with you:
You have determined his ends, and they cannot go beyond that number.
Therefore go back a little from him, so that he may rest,
Until his day that he has desired should come, 
like that of a hired labourer.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Job 14: 1-6
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-18
Line count: 13
Word count: 130