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