71Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?+2As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:+3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.+4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.+5My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.+6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.+7O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.+8The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.+9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.+10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.+11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.+12Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?+13When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;+14Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;+15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.+16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.+17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,+18And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?+19How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?+20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?+21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.+
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