The eye of him who sees me shall not gaze at me; Your eyes will be on me, and I will not be.
And now he has died. Why this, that I should fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
You also put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; You set a limit on the roots of my feet.
But man dies and is cut off, and man expires; and where is he?
Also do You open Your eyes on this one and bring me into judgment with You?
He flies off like a dream, and is not found; and is driven away like a night vision.
An eye caught sight of him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not again see him.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is not.
For now I would have lain down and have been quiet; I would have slept. Then I would have been at rest,
And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.
If one swallows him from his place, even it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you!
For the wind passes over it, and it is not; and its place never recognizes it again.
yet he passed away, and, behold, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.
You correct a man with rebukes over iniquity; and as a moth You melt away what he desires. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.