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7:1  “Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
7:2  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh 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 has 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 wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more; Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth 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 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 whale, 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 scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through visions,
7:15  so that my soul chooseth 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 Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?
7:18  And that Thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
7:19  How long wilt Thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down 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 to myself?
7:21  And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and Thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.”