1. Is there not a tzava (forced hard service in the army) to enosh (man) upon earth? Are not his days also like the yamim of a sachir (hired laborer)?
2. As an eved earnestly longeth for tzel (shade), and as a sachir waiteth for the wage of his work,
3. So am I made to possess months of shav (vanity, futility), and lailot amal (nights of weariness) are appointed to me.
4. When I lie down, I say, Mosai (how long) till I arise? But the erev drags on, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto dawn.
5. My basar is clothed with worm and clod of aphar; my ohr (skin) is broken, and become loathsome.
6. My yamim are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without tikveh.
7. O remember that my life is ruach (wind); mine eye shall no more see tov.
8. The ayin (eye) of him that hath seen me shall see me no longer; thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
9. Like the anan that fades and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
10. He shall return no more to his bais, neither shall his makom know him any more.
11. Therefore I will not curb my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my ruach; I will complain in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh.