Note 2 — VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
"I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud."—Job, xxx. 15.
"My days have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey."—Job, ix. 26.
"Man cometh forth like a flower and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state."—Job, xiv. 2.—t.