^13 (A)Look away from me, that I may smile again,
    ^(B)before I depart and ^(C)am no more!”

¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and ^(A)where is he?
^11 (B)As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,
¹² so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till ^(C)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be ^(D)roused out of his sleep.

⁵ Since his ^(A)days are determined,
    and ^(B)the number of his months is with you,
    and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
^6 (C)look away from him and leave him alone,^[a]
    that he may enjoy, like ^(D)a hired hand, his day.

^20 (A)Are not my days few?
    ^(B)Then cease, and leave me alone, ^(C)that I may find a little cheer
²¹ before I go—and ^(D)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(E)darkness and ^(F)deep shadow,

¹⁹ How long will you not ^(A)look away from me,
    nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?