5. My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way again.
6. “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
7. Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.
8. The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but I will be gone.
9. A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.
10. He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.
11. “Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit’s anguish; I will complain in my inner self’s bitterness.
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, and my couch will ease my complaint,’
14. then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me.
15. So my inner self will choose strangling— death more than my existence.