{40:6} There is little or no rest, and sleep is taken from him, as if on a day of keeping watch.
{40:7} He is disturbed by a vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in a day of warfare. In the time of his salvation, he rose up and wondered that there was no fear.
{40:8} This is so with all flesh, from man even to cattle, but upon sinners it is seven times as great.
{40:9} Add to this: death, bloodshed, contention, and the spear, oppression, famine, and affliction, and scourges.
{40:10} All these things have been created because of iniquity, and it is due to iniquity that the great flood was made.

{40:1} A great occupation was created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day of their departure from their mother’s womb, even until the day of their burial into the mother of all:
{40:2} their thoughts, and the fears of their heart, their imagined expectations, and the day of their end,
{40:3} from him who sits upon a glorious throne, even to him who is humbled in earth and ashes,
{40:4} from him who wears hyacinth and bears a crown, even to him who is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, tumult, restlessness, and the fear of death, continual anger and contention.
{40:5} And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changes his knowledge.