^7:1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

    ^7:2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow and as a hireling who looks for his wages, ^7:3so I am made to possess months of misery and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    ^7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day. ^7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up and breaks out afresh.

    ^7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope. ^7:7 O remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. ^7:8 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more. Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.

    ^7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. ^7:10 He will return no more to his house, nor will his place know him any more.

    ^7:11 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.

    ^7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a watch 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 through visions,^7:15 so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones. ^7:16 I loathe my life. I would not live everlasting. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. ^7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him and that you should set your mind upon him, ^7:18 and that you should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ^7:19 How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ^7:20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, O you, watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? ^7:21And 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.