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[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
(7:1)
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:
(7:2)
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me
(7:3)
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
(7:4)
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome
(7:5)
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope
(7:6)
O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good
(7:7)
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not
(7:8)
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]
(7:9)
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more
(7:10)
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
(7:11)
[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
(7:12)
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
(7:13)
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
(7:14)
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life
(7:15)
I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity
(7:16)
What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
(7:17)
And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
(7:18)
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
(7:19)
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?
(7:20)
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]
(7:21)
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