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7:1  Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
7:2  As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work:
7:3  So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
7:4  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7  O remember that my life is a breath: my eye shall no more see good.
7:8  The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
7:10  He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
7:11  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.
7:12  Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you set a watch over me?
7:13  When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
7:14  Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
7:15  So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
7:16  I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
7:17  What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?
7:18  And that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
7:19  How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
7:20  I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
7:21  And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.