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Job continues to speak

People have to work very hard on this earth.
    They have to work every day, like servants.
A servant waits for the end of the day so that he can rest.
    A worker waits for his master to pay him.
But there is nothing for me to wait for.
    I wait for many months and nothing happens.
    Every night, I am always sad.

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)
Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(D)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(E)
so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.(F)

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