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\c 7
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\q
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\v 1 Does not man have hard labor on earth?
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\q Are not his days like the days of a hired man?
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\q
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\v 2 Like a slave earnestly desires the shadows of evening,
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\q like a hired man looks for his wages—
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\q
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\v 3 so I have been made to endure months of misery;
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\q I have been given trouble-filled nights.
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\q
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\v 4 When I lie down, I say to myself,
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\q 'When will I get up and when will the night be gone?'
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\q I am full of tossing to and fro until the day's dawning.
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\q
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\v 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;
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\q the sores in my skin harden up and then dissolve and run afresh.
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\v 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle;
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\q they pass without hope.
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\v 7 God, call to mind that my life is only a breath;
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\q my eye will no more see good.
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\v 8 The eye of God, who sees me, will see me no more;
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\q God's eyes will be on me, but I will not exist.
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\v 9 As a cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
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\q so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
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\v 10 He will return no more to his house;
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\q neither will his place know him again.
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\v 11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
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\q I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
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\q I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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\v 12 Am I the sea or a sea monster
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\q that you place a guard over me?
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\v 13 When I say, 'My bed will comfort me,
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\q and my couch will ease my complaint,'
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\v 14 then you scare me with dreams
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\q and terrify me through visions,
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\v 15 so that I would choose strangling
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\q and death rather than preserving these bones of mine.
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\v 16 I loathe my life; I would not wish to always be alive;
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\q let me alone for my days are useless.
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\v 17 What is man that you should pay attention to him,
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\q that you should set your mind on him,
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\v 18 that you should observe him every morning
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\q and test him every moment?
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\v 19 How long will it be before you look away from me,
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\q before you let me alone long enough for me to swallow down my own saliva?
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\v 20 Even if I have sinned, what would that do to you, you who watch men?
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\q Why have you made a target of me,
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\q so that I am a burden for you?
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\v 21 Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity?
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\q For now will I lie down in the dust;
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\q you will seek me carefully, but I will not exist."
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