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# Chapter 7
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1 “Has not man a hard service on earth,
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and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
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2 Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
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and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
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3 so I am allotted months of emptiness,
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and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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4 When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’
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But the night is long,
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and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
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5 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
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my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
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and come to their end without hope.
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7 “Remember that my life is a breath;
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my eye will never again see good.
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8 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
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while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
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9 As the cloud fades and vanishes,
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so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
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10 he returns no more to his house,
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nor does his place know him anymore.
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11 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
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I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
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I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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12 Am I the sea, or a sea monster,
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that you set a guard over me?
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13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
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my couch will ease my complaint,’
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14 then you scare me with dreams
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and terrify me with visions,
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15 so that I would choose strangling
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and death rather than my bones.
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16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
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Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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17 What is man, that you make so much of him,
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and that you set your heart on him,
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18 visit him every morning
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and test him every moment?
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19 How long will you not look away from me,
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nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
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Why have you made me your mark?
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Why have I become a burden to you?
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
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and take away my iniquity?
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For now I shall lie in the earth;
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you will seek me, but I shall not be.” |