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

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁴ and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

⁶ Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

²¹ Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

⁹ That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

⁸ And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

³ And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

¹¹ For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

¹² For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

⁴ Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

³³ And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

⁹ Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.

¹⁰ Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

²¹ Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

²² Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, `I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these -- from the daughters of the land -- why do I live?'