1[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling? 2As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke, 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure. 8The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer. 9[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. 10He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more. 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 13When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation, 14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. 16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. 17What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment? 19Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle. 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].