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¹ Isn’t each person consigned to forced labor^(C1) on earth?² Like a slave he longs for shade;
like a hired worker he waits for his pay.³ So I have been made to inherit months of futility,
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.^(C1)4 When I lie down I think,
“When will I get up?”
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.⁵ My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.^(F1)
My skin forms scabs^(F2) and then oozes.^(C1)

⁶ My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;
they come to an end without hope.^(C1)7 Remember that my life is but a breath.
My eye will never again see anything good.^(C1)8 The eye of anyone who looks on me
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.^(C1)9 As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol^(C1) will never rise again.¹⁰ He will never return to his house;
his hometown will no longer remember^(F1) him.^(C1)

¹¹ Therefore I will not restrain my mouth.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.¹² Am I the sea^(F1)(C1) or a sea monster,^(C2)
that you keep me under guard?¹³ When I say, “My bed will comfort me,
and my couch will ease my complaint,”¹⁴ then you frighten me with dreams,
and terrify me with visions,^(C1)15 so that I prefer strangling^(F1)—
death rather than life in this body.^(F2)(C1)16 I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,^(C1) for my days are a breath.^(F1)

¹⁷ What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him?^(C1)18 You inspect him every morning,
and put him to the test every moment.^(C1)19 Will you ever look away from me,
or leave me alone long enough to swallow?^(F1)20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
Watcher of humanity?
Why have you made me your target,^(C1)
so that I have become a burden to you?^(F1)21 Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my iniquity?^(C1)
For soon I will lie down in the grave.^(C2)
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.^(C3)