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Job: My Suffering Is without End

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
    and are not their days like the days of a laborer?
Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
    and like laborers who look for their wages,
so I am allotted months of emptiness,
    and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I rise?’
    But the night is long,
    and I am full of tossing until dawn.

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My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
    and come to their end without hope.[a]

“Remember that my life is a breath;
    my eye will never again see good.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:6 Or as the thread runs out

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