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¹ Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And his days like the days of a hireling?² As a servant pants for the shade, and as a hireling looks for his wages,³ so I am caused to inherit months of emptiness; and weary nights are appointed to me.⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up? But the night is long, and I am full of tossings, until the twilight of the dawn.⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and is loathed.⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are ended without hope.

⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes shall not return to see good.⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall gaze at me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am not.⁹ As the cloud fades, it goes, so he who goes down to Sheol shall not come up.¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house; nor shall his place know him any more.¹¹ Therefore, I will not hold my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that You set a watch over me?¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall bear my complaining,¹⁴ then You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions;¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones.¹⁶ I despise them ; I will not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

¹⁷ What is man that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,¹⁸ and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?¹⁹ How long will You not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?²⁰ I have sinned; what do I do to You, O Watcher of man? Why have You set me as a target for You so that I am a burden on myself?²¹ And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.