7. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;my eyes will never see happiness again.
8. The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;you will look for me, but I will be no more.
9. As a cloud vanishes and is gone,so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
10. He will never come to his house again;his place will know him no more.
11. ‘Therefore I will not keep silent;I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,that you put me under guard?
13. When I think my bed will comfort meand my couch will ease my complaint,
14. even then you frighten me with dreamsand terrify me with visions,
15. so that I prefer strangling and death,rather than this body of mine.
16. I despise my life; I would not live for ever.Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
17. ‘What is mankind that you make so much of them,that you give them so much attention,
18. that you examine them every morningand test them every moment?
19. Will you never look away from me,or let me alone even for an instant?