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VII] :As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away:
 * So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
 * He shall return no more to his house.
 * Neither shall his place know him any more.
 * Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
 * I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
 * I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
 * Am I a sea, or a whale,
 * That thou settest a watch over me?
 * When I say, My bed shall comfort me,
 * My couch shall ease my complaint;
 * Then thou scarest me with dreams.
 * And terrifiest me through visions:
 * So that my soul chooseth strangling.
 * And death rather than my life.
 * I loathe it; I would not live alway:
 * Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
 * What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?
 * And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
 * And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,
 * And try him every moment?
 * How long wilt thou not depart from me,
 * Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
 * I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?
 * Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee,