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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus. Job Cries Out to God |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You see me now, but not for long. You will look for me, but I will be gone. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They are gone forever from their home— never to be seen again. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“I cannot keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. My bitter soul must complain. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Am I a sea monster or a dragon that you must place me under guard? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’ |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I would rather be strangled— rather die than suffer like this. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I hate my life and don’t want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“What are people, that you should make so much of us, that you should think of us so often? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For you examine us every morning and test us every moment. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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