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