Job.

Few be the days that feeble man must breath,

Yet frequent troubles antedate his death:

Gay like a flow'r he comes, which newly grown,

Fades of itself, or is untimely mown:

Like a thin aery shadow does he fly,

Length'ning and short'ning still until he die.

And does Jehovah think on such a one,

Does he behold him from his mighty Throne?