¹³ Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

²⁰ Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹¹ The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

²⁴ And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

¹⁹ How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

⁶ Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.