Job 7:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

7 ‘Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
    and are not their days like the days of a labourer?
² Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
    and like labourers who look for their wages,
³ so I am allotted months of emptiness,
    and nights of misery are apportioned to me.