Solomon Like Other Mortals

7 I also am mortal, like everyone else,

a descendant of the first-formed child of earth;

and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,

2 within the period of ten months, compacted with blood,

from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.

3 And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air,

and fell upon the kindred earth;

my first sound was a cry, as is true of all.

4 I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths.

5 For no king has had a different beginning of existence;