it seemeth in thy sight
As yesterday, when it is past, or as a watch by night.
[verse 5] Thou, like a floud, them driv'st away, and as a sleep they be;
And in the morne as grasse are they, which soon we changed see.
[verse 6] It springeth in the morning green, and growes up pleasantly:
But cut at evening it is seen soon withered down to lye.
[verse 7] For us consum'd thine anger hath, our might is much decai'd;
And we by thy afflicting wrath are troubled and dismai'd.
[verse 8] The wicked workes that we have wrought' thou sett'st before thine eies
Our secret sins, yea sins of thought thy countenance espies.
[verse 9] For in thy wrath our daies do waste, in griefes they come to end;
And, like a tale that's told and past, so we our yeares do spend.
[verse 10] Full three score years & ten at length, our daies and yeares may be;
And if by reason of their strength, men fourscore years do see:
[verse 11] Yet shall the strength of such old men but griefe and labour be:
For soon it is cut off, and then away we swiftly flee.
[verse 12] What man doth understand & know,