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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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