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¹ "Does not humanity have hard service on earth?
Are not their days also
like the days of a hired man?
² Like a servant longing for the evening shadow,
and like a hired man looking for his wages,
³ thus I have been made to inherit
months of futility,
and nights of sorrow
have been appointed to me.
⁴ If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?',
and the night stretches on
and I toss and turn restlessly
until the day dawns.
⁵ My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs;
my skin is broken and festering.
⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
and they come to an end without hope.
⁷ Remember that my life is but a breath,
that my eyes will never again see happiness.
⁸ The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more;
your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
⁹ As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears,
so the one who goes down to the grave
does not come up again.
¹⁰ He returns no more to his house,
nor does his place of residence know him any more.

¹¹ "Therefore, I will not refrain 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, or the creature of the deep,
that you must put me under guard?
¹³ If I say, "My bed will comfort me,
my couch will ease my complaint,"
¹⁴ then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
¹⁵ so that I would prefer strangling,
and death more than life.
¹⁶ I loathe it; I do not want to live forever;
leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

¹⁷ "What is mankind that you make so much of them,
and that you pay attention to them?
¹⁸ And that you visit them every morning,
and try them every moment?
¹⁹ Will you never look away from me,
will you not let me alone
long enough to swallow my spittle?
²⁰ If I have sinned—what have I done to you,
O watcher of men?
Why have you set me as your target?
Have I become a burden to you?
²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression,
and take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust,
and you will seek me diligently,
but I will be gone."