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7:1  “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
7:2  Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
7:3  so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
7:4  When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
7:7  “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; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
7:9  As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
7:10  he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know 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 I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
7:16  I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
7:17  What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,
7:18  visit him every morning and test him every moment?
7:19  How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
7:20  If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
7:21  Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”