[Is there] not an appointed time <H6635> to man <H0582> upon earth? <H0776> [are not] his days <H3117> also like the days <H3117> of an hireling? <H7916>
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As a servant <H5650> earnestly desireth <H7602> the shadow, <H6738> and as an hireling <H7916> looketh <H6960> for [the reward of] his work: <H6467>
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So am I made to possess <H5157> months <H3391> of vanity, <H7723> and wearisome <H5999> nights <H3915> are appointed <H4487> to me.
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When I lie down, <H7901> I say, <H0559> When shall I arise, <H6965> and the night <H6153> be gone? <H4059> and I am full <H7646> of tossings to and fro <H5076> unto the dawning of the day. <H5399>
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My flesh <H1320> is clothed <H3847> with worms <H7415> and clods <H1487> of dust; <H6083> my skin <H5785> is broken, <H7280> and become loathsome. <H3988>
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My days <H3117> are swifter <H7043> than a weaver's shuttle, <H0708> and are spent <H3615> without <H0657> hope. <H8615>
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O remember <H2142> that my life <H2416> [is] wind: <H7307> mine eye <H5869> shall no more <H7725> see <H7200> good. <H2896>
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The eye <H5869> of him that hath seen <H7210> me shall see <H7789> me no [more]: thine eyes <H5869> [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
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[As] the cloud <H6051> is consumed <H3615> and vanisheth <H3212> away: so he that goeth down <H3381> to the grave <H7585> shall come up <H5927> no [more].
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He shall return <H7725> no more to his house, <H1004> neither shall his place <H4725> know <H5234> him any more.
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Therefore I will not refrain <H2820> my mouth; <H6310> I will speak <H1696> in the anguish <H6862> of my spirit; <H7307> I will complain <H7878> in the bitterness <H4751> of my soul. <H5315>
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[Am] I a sea, <H3220> or a whale, <H8577> that thou settest <H7760> a watch <H4929> over me?
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When I say, <H0559> My bed <H6210> shall comfort <H5162> me, my couch <H4904> shall ease <H5375> my complaint; <H7879>
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Then thou scarest <H2865> me with dreams, <H2472> and terrifiest <H1204> me through visions: <H2384>
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So that my soul <H5315> chooseth <H0977> strangling, <H4267> [and] death <H4194> rather than my life. <H6106>
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I loathe <H3988> [it]; I would not live <H2421> alway: <H5769> let me alone; <H2308> for my days <H3117> [are] vanity. <H1892>
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What [is] man, <H0582> that thou shouldest magnify <H1431> him? and that thou shouldest set <H7896> thine heart <H3820> upon him?
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And [that] thou shouldest visit <H6485> him every morning, <H1242> [and] try <H0974> him every moment? <H7281>
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How long <H4100> wilt thou not depart <H8159> from me, nor let me alone <H7503> till I swallow down <H1104> my spittle? <H7536>
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I have sinned; <H2398> what shall I do <H6466> unto thee, O thou preserver <H5341> of men? <H0120> why hast thou set <H7760> me as a mark <H4645> against thee, so that I am a burden <H4853> to myself?
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And why dost thou not pardon <H5375> my transgression, <H6588> and take away <H5674> mine iniquity? <H5771> for now shall I sleep <H7901> in the dust; <H6083> and thou shalt seek me in the morning, <H7836> but I [shall] not [be].