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1 |Isn't a mortal's stay on earth difficult like a hired hand's daily [work]? “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? “Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
2 Like a slave, he longs for shade. Like a hired hand, he eagerly looks for his pay. Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
3 Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery. so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
4 When I lie down, I ask, 'When will I get up?' But the evening is long, and I'm exhausted from tossing about until dawn. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin is crusted over with sores; then they ooze. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
6 My days go swifter than a weaver's shuttle. They are spent without hope. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope. “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
7 Remember, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good. “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
8 The eye that watches over me will no longer see me. Your eye will look for me, but I'll be gone. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. 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 fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn't come back again. As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
10 He doesn't come back home again, and his household doesn't recognize him anymore. he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
11 So I won't keep my mouth shut, but I will speak from the distress that is in my spirit and complain about the bitterness in my soul. “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. “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 a sea monster that you have set a guard over me? Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
13 When I say, 'My couch may give me comfort. My bed may help me bear my pain,' When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
14 then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions. then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
15 My throat would rather be choked. My body would prefer death [to these dreams]. so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
16 I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
17 |What is a mortal that you should make so much of him, that you should be concerned about him? What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,
18 [What is he] that you should inspect him every morning and examine him every moment? visit him every morning and test him every moment? that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?
19 Why don't you stop looking at me long enough to let me swallow my spit? How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit? Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?
20 If I sin, what can I [possibly] do to you since you insist on spying on people? Why do you make me your target? I've become a burden even to myself. If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you? If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
21 Why don't you forgive my disobedience and take away my sin? Soon I'll lie down in the dust. Then you will search for me, but I'll be gone!| Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.” 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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