For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of LORD [is] as the fat of lambs: they shall disintegrate; they shall disintegrate away into smoke.
My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
For thou are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.