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7:1  1 Job showeth the shortness and misery of man’s life. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? and are not his days as the days of an hireling?
7:2  As a servant longeth for the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the end of his work,
7:3  So have I had as an inheritance the months of vanity, and painful nights have been appointed unto me.
7:4  If I laid me down, I said, When shall I arise? and measuring the evening, I am even full with tossing to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and filthiness of the dust: my skin is rent, and become horrible.
7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent without hope.
7:7  Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not return to see pleasure.
7:8  The eye that hath seen me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I shall be no longer.
7:9  As the cloud vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth 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 anymore.
7:11  Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit, and muse in the bitterness of my mind.
7:12  Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in ward?
7:13  When I say, My couch shall relieve me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,
7:14  Then fearest thou me with dreams, and astonishest me with visions.
7:15  Therefore my soul chooseth rather to be strangled and to die, than to be in my bones.
7:16  I abhor it: I shall not live always: spare me then, for my days are but vanity.
7:17  What is man, that thou dost magnify him, and that thou settest thine heart upon him?
7:18  And dost visit him every morning, and triest him every moment?
7:19  How long will it be ere thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone while I may swallow my spittle.
7:20  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 unto myself?
7:21  And why dost thou not pardon my trespass? and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust, and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.