3. So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
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 till the dawning of the day.
5. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has become loathsome, and it closes up and breaks out afresh.
6. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7. Oh, remember that my life is but wind (a puff, a breath, a sob); my eye shall see good no more.
8. The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
9. As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead) shall come up no more.
10. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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 [O Lord]!
12. Am I the sea, or the sea monster, that You set a watch over me?
13. When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,