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7:1  “Human life on earth is like serving in the army; yes, we drudge through our days like a hired worker,
7:2  like a slave longing for shade, like a worker thinking only of his wages.
7:3  So I am assigned months of meaninglessness; troubled nights are my lot.
7:4  When I lie down, I ask, ‘When can I get up?’ But the night is long, and I keep tossing to and fro until daybreak.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt, my skin forms scabs that ooze pus.
7:6  My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
7:7  “Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never again see good times.
7:8  The eye that now sees me will see me no more; while your eyes are on me, I will be gone.
7:9  Like a cloud dissolving and disappearing, so he who descends to Sh’ol won’t come back up.
7:10  He will not return again to his house, and his home will know him no more.
7:11  “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth but will speak in my anguish of spirit and complain in my bitterness of soul.
7:12  Am I the sea, or some sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
7:13  When I think that my bed will comfort me, that my couch will relieve my complaint,
7:14  then you terrify me with dreams and frighten me with visions.
7:15  I would rather be strangled; death would be better than these bones of mine.
7:16  I hate it! I won’t live forever, so leave me alone, for my life means nothing.
7:17  “What are mere mortals, that you make so much of them? Why do you keep them on your mind?
7:18  Why examine them every morning and test them every moment?
7:19  Won’t you ever take your eyes off of me, at least long enough for me to swallow my spit?
7:20  “Suppose I do sin — how do I harm you, you scrutinizer of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I am a burden to you?
7:21  Why don’t you pardon my offense and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust; you will seek me, but I will be gone.”