Man, born of a woman impure,
To trouble and misery born,
Not meant upon earth to endure
Must soon to corruption return:
Cut down as a flourishing flower,
He fades, as a shadow he flies,
His beauty is gone in an hour;
He blooms for a moment, and dies.
Man, born of a woman impure
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “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.”—[Job] xiv. 1, 2. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 245.
Publishing: Public Domain