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7:1  Isn’t man’s time on earth like being compelled to serve in the army? Aren’t his days like those of a hired man?
7:2  Like a slave, he longs for shade, or like a day laborer, he waits for his pay.
7:3  In the same way, I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of agony have been assigned to me.
7:4  When I lie down, I think, “How long before I get up?” But the night drags on, and I am filled with restlessness until dawn.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with maggots and caked with dirt. My skin scabs over and then oozes again.
7:6  My days pass by more swiftly than the shuttle of a weaver’s loom. They come to an end without hope.
7:7  Remember that my life is just a breath. My eyes will never again see good fortune.
7:8  The eyes that see me now will no longer watch me. Your eyes will look for me, but I will not be there.
7:9  As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so does the one who goes down to the grave. He does not come back up again.
7:10  He never again returns to his home, and his place will no longer know him.
7:11  That is why I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit. I will lament in the bitterness of my soul.
7:12  Am I the sea or a great creature of the deep that you need to put me under guard?
7:13  When I say that my bed will comfort me, and my couch will help me with my lament,
7:14  then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
7:15  so I would prefer to be strangled, and I prefer death more than my current existence.
7:16  I reject my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are just a vanishing vapor.
7:17  What is man that you make so much of him, that you pay so much attention to him,
7:18  that you inspect him every morning and test him every minute?
7:19  Why do you never stop watching me? Why don’t you leave me alone long enough for me to swallow my spit?
7:20  If I have sinned, what harm has it done to you, you who keep watch on mankind? Why have you set me up as your target? How have I become a burden to you?
7:21  Why do you not forgive my rebellion? Why do you not take away my guilt? Soon I will lie down in the dust. You will search for me, but I will not be there.