- 1. "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
- 2. As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
- 3. so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- 4. When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
- 5. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- 6. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- 7. Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
- 8. The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
- 9. As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
- 10. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- 11. "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 12. Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
- 13. When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'
- 14. then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
- 15. so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
- 16. I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- 17. What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
- 18. that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
- 19. How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
- 20. If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
- 21. Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
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