⁶ “My^(E) days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
⁷ Oh, remember that ^(F)my life is a breath!
My eye will never again see good.
^8 (G)The eye of him who sees me will see me no more;
While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.
⁹ As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So ^(H)he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
¹⁰ He shall never return to his house,
^(I)Nor shall his place know him anymore.

¹¹ “Therefore I will ^(J)not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will ^(K)complain in the bitterness of my soul.
¹² Am I a sea, or a sea serpent,
That You set a guard over me?
^13 (L)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
¹⁴ Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,
¹⁵ So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than ^[b]my body.
^16 (M)I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
^(N)Let me alone,
For ^(O)my days are but ^[c]a breath.

¹⁷ “What^(P) is man, that You should exalt him,
That You should set Your heart on him,
¹⁸ That You should ^[d]visit him every morning,
And test him every moment?
¹⁹ How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
²⁰ Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, ^(Q)O watcher of men?
Why ^(R)have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden ^[e]to myself?
²¹ Why then 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 no longer be.”