Men are born with a helpless lamenting cry;
they should depart from the world with a smile of joy.
That is the purpose of the years of life in between.
But those years are wasted now.
God, who is the anchor that saves
man from the tempests of grief and despair,
is neglected and ignored. Man is tossed about
from one want to another, one grief to another,
until he is blinded by despair and exhausted by foiled pursuits.
Most illnesses are due to this despair and this exhaustion.
