Read the Bible

¹ "Does not a human being^[a] have hard service^[b] on earth?
And are not his^[c] days like the days of a laborer?
² Like a slave he longs for the shadow,
and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
³ So I had to inherit^[d] months of worthlessness,
and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
⁴ When I lie down, I say,^[e] ‘When shall I rise?'
But^[f] the night is long,
and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
⁵ My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust;
my skin hardens, then^[g] it gives way again.
⁶ "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
and they come to an end without hope.^[h]
7 Remember that my life is a breath;
my eye will not return to see good.
⁸ The eye of the one seeing me will not see me;
your eyes are upon me, but^[i] I will be gone.^[j]
9 A cloud vanishes, and it goes away,
so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.
¹⁰ He does not return again to his house,
and his place does not recognize him again.
¹¹ "Even^[k] I will not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in my spirit's anguish;
I will complain in my inner self's^[l] bitterness.
¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster,
that you set a guard over me?
¹³ When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
and my couch^[m] will ease my complaint,'
¹⁴ then^[n] you terrify me with dreams,^[o]
and with visions you terrify^[p] me.
¹⁵ So^[q] my inner self^[r] will choose^[s] strangling—
death more than my existence.^[t]
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever;
depart from me, for my days are a breath.
¹⁷ "What is a human being that you make him great
and that you fix your mind on him,^[u]
18 so that^[v] you visit him every morning,^[w]
you test him every moment?^[x]
19 How long^[y] will you not turn away from me?
Or not leave me alone until I swallow^[z] my spit?
²⁰ If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity?
Why have you made me as a target for yourself,
so that^[aa] I have become a burden to myself?^[ab]
21 And why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my guilt?
For now I shall lie in the dust,
and you will seek me, but^[ac] I will be no more."^[ad]