2. Like a slave who longs for the shadow,and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
3. so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’But the night is long,and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
5. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
6. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttleand come to their end without hope.
7. “Remember that my life is a breath;my eye will never again see good.
8. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
9. As the cloud fades and vanishes,so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
10. he returns no more to his house,nor does his place know him anymore.
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.
12. Am I the sea, or a sea monster,that you set a guard over me?
13. When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,my couch will ease my complaint,’