10. I said, “Am I to go into the gates of the grave in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”
11. I said, “I shall not see Yah – Yah in the land of the living! I shall no longer look on man with the inhabitants of the world!
12. “My dwelling is plucked up, taken from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day to night You make an end of me.
13. “I soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me.
14. “Like a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O יהוה, I am oppressed, undertake for me!
15. “What do I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted. Softly I go, all my years, because of the bitterness of my being.
16. “O יהוה, by these do men live, and my spirit finds life in all of them. Restore me and make me live.