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7:1  Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
7:2  As a slave earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for rest from his work,
7:3  so I am 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? I measure the night, 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 abominable.
7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and are spent without hope.
7:7  Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good.
7:8  The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be.
7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;
7:10  he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more.
7:11  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.
7:12  Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me?
7:13  When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
7:14  then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
7:15  And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones.
7:16  I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
7:17  What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him
7:18  and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment?
7:19  For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
7:20  If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
7:21  And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.