1. “Does not a human being have hard service on earth? And are not his days like the days of a laborer?
2. Like a slave he longs for the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
3. So I had to inherit months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4. When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I rise?’ But the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
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.