Job 7:1-3

New International Reader's Version

“Don’t all human beings have to work hard on this earth?
    Aren’t their days like the days of hired workers?
² I’ve been like a slave
    who longs for the evening shadows to come.
I’ve been like a hired worker
    who is waiting to be paid.
³ I’ve been given several months that were useless to me.
    My nights have been filled with suffering.