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7:1  Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? and are not his days like the days of an hireling?
7:2  As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling that looketh for his wages:
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? but the night is long; 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 closeth up and breaketh 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 wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8  The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol 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 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 sea-monster, 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 these my bones.
7:16  I loathe my life; I would not live alway: 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 look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
7:20  If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? why hast thou set me as a mark for 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 lie down in the dust; and thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be.