Eve of the Feast of All Souls

Homo, natus de mulíere, brevi vivens témpore, replétur multis misériis. Qui quasi flos egrediétur et contéritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eódem statu pérmanet. Et dignum ducis super hujuscémodi aperíre óculos tuos, et addúcere eum tecum in judícium? Quis potest fácere mundum de immúndo concéptum sémine? Nonne tu qui solus es? Breves dies hóminis sunt, númerus ménsium ejus apud te est : constituísti términos ejus, qui præteríri non póterunt. Recéde páululum ab eo, ut quiéscat, donec optáta véniat, sicut mercenárii, dies ejus.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou think it meet to open thine eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of unclean seed? Can anyone do this except thee? Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee ; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass : turn from him, and forbear, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his