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7:1  ‘Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a labourer?
7:2  Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like labourers who look for their 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 rise?” But the night is long, and I am full of tossing until dawn.
7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
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 that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
7:9  As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
7:10  they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.
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 the Dragon, 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 this body.
7:16  I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
7:17  What are human beings, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,
7:18  visit them every morning, test them every moment?
7:19  Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
7:20  If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? 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.’