¹³ Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again,
    before I depart and am no more.”^(A)

¹⁰ But mortals die and are laid low;
    humans expire, and where are they?^(A)
11 As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,^(B)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
    until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
    or be roused out of their sleep.^(C)

⁵ Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,^(A)
6 look away from them and desist,^[a]
    that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.^(B)

²⁰ Are not the days of my life few?^[a]
    Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort^[b](A)
21 before I go, never to return,
    to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

¹⁹ Will you not look away from me for a while,
    let me alone until I swallow my spittle?