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¹ "Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
    and are not their days like the days of a laborer?
² Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
    and like laborers who look for their wages,
³ so I am allotted months of emptiness,
    and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
⁴ When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I rise?'
    But the night is long,
    and I am full of tossing until dawn.
⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
    my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
    and come to their end without hope.^[a]

⁷ "Remember that my life is a breath;
    my eye will never again see good.
⁸ The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
    while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
⁹ As the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
¹⁰ they return no more to their houses,
    nor do their places know them any more.

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, or the Dragon,
    that you set a guard over me?
¹³ When 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 choose strangling
    and death rather than this body.
¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
¹⁷ What are human beings, that you make so much of them,
    that you set your mind on them,
¹⁸ visit them every morning,
    test them every moment?
¹⁹ Will you not look away from me for a while,
    let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
    Why have you made me your target?
    Why have I become a burden to you?
²¹ Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
    you will seek me, but I shall not be."