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¹ Is there not a warfare to common man on earth? And are not his days like the days of a hired worker?² As a slave that earnestly desires the shadow, And as a hired worker that looks for his wages:³ So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

⁷ Oh remember that my life is a breath: My eye shall no more see good.⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall look at me no more; Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he that goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him anymore.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 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 ease my complaint;¹⁴ Then you scare me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:¹⁵ So that my soul chooses strangling, And death rather than my bones.¹⁶ I loathe [my life]; I would not live always: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹⁷ What is common man, that you should magnify him, And that you should set your mind on him,¹⁸ And that you should visit him every morning, And try him every moment?¹⁹ How long will you not look away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to you, O you watcher of man? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to you?²¹ And why don't you pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust; And you will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.