1. “Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth?Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?
2. Like a servant, he longs for the shade,and like a hired worker, he looks for his wages,
3. so I have been assigned months of futility,and nights of trouble have been appointed to me.
4. When I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise and the night be ended?’And I am full of restlessness until the dawn.
5. My flesh is covered with worms and caked with dirt;my skin is broken, and has become loathsome.
6. “My days fly more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle,and are spent without hope.
7. Oh, 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;your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more.
9. As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10. He will never return to his house,and his place will not recognize him anymore.