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Job: My Suffering Is without End

“Has not man a hard service upon earth,
    and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
    and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
so I am allotted months of emptiness,
    and nights of misery are apportioned 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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