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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Isn't each person consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired worker? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hired worker he waits for his pay. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When I lie down I think, "When will I get up?" But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle; they come to an end without hope. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eye will never again see anything good. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The eye of anyone who looks on me will no longer see me. Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He will never return to his house; his hometown will no longer remember him. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Am I the sea or a sea monster, that you keep me under guard? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When I say, "My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint," |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14then you frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions, |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15so that I prefer strangling--death rather than life in this body. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I give up! I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him and pay so much attention to him? |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You inspect him every morning, and put him to the test every moment. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Will you ever look away from me, or leave me alone long enough to swallow? |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, Watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I have become a burden to you? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Why not forgive my sin and pardon my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the grave. You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone. |
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