The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.

He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.

Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'

And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but {I will be no more}."

then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me.

I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

Remember that my life [is] a breath; my eye will not return to see good.

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

so that you visit him {every morning}, you test him {every moment}?

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.