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        • 1. "Does not man have hard service on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired man?
            • 2. Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages,
                • 3. so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
                    • 4. When I lie down I think, 'How long before I get up?' The night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
                        • 5. My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
                            • 6. "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
                                • 7. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
                                    • 8. The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
                                        • 9. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return.
                                            • 10. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
                                                • 11. "Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
                                                    • 12. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
                                                        • 13. When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
                                                            • 14. even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
                                                                • 15. so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
                                                                    • 16. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
                                                                        • 17. "What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention,
                                                                            • 18. that you examine him every morning and test him every moment?
                                                                                • 19. Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?
                                                                                    • 20. If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
                                                                                        • 21. Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more."
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