Sirach 40:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ He gets little or no rest;
    he struggles in his sleep as he did by day.^[a]
He is troubled by the visions of his mind
    like one who has escaped from the battlefield.
⁷ At the moment he reaches safety he wakes up,
    astonished that his fears were groundless.
⁸ To all creatures, human and animal,
    but to sinners seven times more,