⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.

⁸ You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

⁹ Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

²³ I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;