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7:1  Is there not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
7:2  As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work,
7:3  So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery 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 tossing to and fro till the dawning of the day.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has become loathsome, and it closes up and breaks out afresh.
7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7  Oh, remember that my life is but wind (a puff, a breath, a sob); my eye shall see good no more.
7:8  The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead) 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 [O Lord]!
7:12  Am I the sea, or the 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 I would choose strangling and death rather than these my bones.
7:16  I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath (futility).
7:17  What is man that You should magnify him and think him important? And that You should set Your mind upon him?
7:18  And that You should visit him every morning and try him every moment?
7:19  How long will Your [plaguing] glance not look away from me, nor You let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
7:20  If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done You, O You Watcher and Keeper of men? Why have You set me as a mark for You, so that I am a burden to myself [and You]?
7:21  And why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; and [even if] You will seek me diligently, [it will be too late, for] I shall not be.