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¹ Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling? ² As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke: ³ So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ⁴ When I lie downe, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro, vnto the dawning of the day. ⁵ My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome. ⁶ My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.

⁷ O remember that my life is winde: mine eye shall no more see good. ⁸ The eye of him that hath seene me, shall see mee no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I am not. ⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more. ¹⁰ Hee shall returne no more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more. ¹¹ Therefore I will not refraine my mouth, I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit, I will complaine in the bitternesse of my soule. ¹² Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me? ¹³ When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint: ¹⁴ Then thou skarest mee with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions. ¹⁵ So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life. ¹⁶ I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.

¹⁷ What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him? ¹⁸ And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment? ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not depart from me? nor let me alone till I swallow downe my spittle? ²⁰ I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe? ²¹ And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be.