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, so that I am a burden to myself?
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
