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¶ Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

As a slave earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for rest from his work,

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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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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