For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. {weakened: Heb. afflicted}

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}

I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}

And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig {about thee, and} thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}