^{13 Ref} When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

^{14 Ref} And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

^{15 Ref} And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

^{16 Ref} I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.