⁷ “Remember that my life is a ^(N)breath;
    my eye will never again see good.
^8 (O)The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
    while your eyes are on me, ^(P)I shall be gone.
⁹ As ^(Q)the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so he who ^(R)goes down to Sheol does not come up;
¹⁰ he ^(S)returns no more to his house,
    nor does his ^(T)place know him anymore.

¹¹ “Therefore I will not ^(U)restrain my mouth;
    I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
    I will ^(V)complain in ^(W)the bitterness of my soul.
¹² Am I the sea, or ^(X)a sea monster,
    that you set a guard over me?
^13 (Y)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
    my couch will ease my complaint,’
¹⁴ then you scare me with dreams
    and terrify me with visions,
¹⁵ so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than my ^(Z)bones.
¹⁶ I ^(AA)loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    ^(AB)Leave me alone, for my days are ^(AC)a breath.
^17 (AD)What is man, that you make so much of him,
    and that you set your heart on him,
^18 (AE)visit him every morning
    and ^(AF)test him every moment?
¹⁹ How long will you not ^(AG)look away from me,
    nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
    Why have you made me ^(AH)your mark?
    Why have I become a burden to you?
²¹ Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in ^(AI)the earth;
    you will ^(AJ)seek me, ^(AK)but I shall not be.”