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Job: Don’t we humans struggle long and hard in our time on earth?
        Don’t we live our lives as common laborers?
    As slaves longing for shade,
        as workers pining for wages,
    So I am destined to receive only months of meaninglessness,
        and nights of nothing but misery.

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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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