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7:1  “Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?
7:2  Like a servant, he longs for the shade, and like a hired worker, he looks for his wages,
7:3  so I have been assigned months of futility, and nights of trouble have been appointed to me.
7:4  When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise and the night be ended?’ And I am full of restlessness until the dawn.
7:5  My flesh is covered with worms and caked with dirt; my skin is broken, and has become loathsome.
7:6  “My days fly more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7  Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.
7:8  The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more.
7:9  As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
7:10  He will never return to his house, and his place will not recognize him anymore.
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 the sea, or a sea monster, that You set a guard over me?
7:13  When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’
7:14  then You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
7:15  so that my soul chooses strangling, even death rather than my life.
7:16  I loathe my life; I would not live forever; let me alone, for my days are emptiness.
7:17  “What is man, that You should exalt him, and that You should set Your heart on him,
7:18  and that You should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
7:19  How long until You look away from me? Will You not let me alone until I swallow my saliva?
7:20  Have I sinned? What am I doing to You, O You watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself?
7:21  And why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust; and You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”