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Job 7
Job 7
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
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“How mankind must struggle. A man's life is long and hard, like that of a slave.
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How he longs for the day to end. How he grinds on to the end of the week and his wages.
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And so to me also have been allotted months of frustration, these long and weary nights.
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When I go to bed I think, 'Oh, that it were morning,' and then I toss till dawn.
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“My skin is filled with worms and blackness. My flesh breaks open, full of pus.
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My life drags by—day after hopeless day.
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My life is but a breath, and nothing good is left.
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You see me now, but not for long. Soon you'll look upon me dead.
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As a cloud disperses and vanishes, so those who die shall go away forever—
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gone forever from their family and their home—never to be seen again.
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Ah, let me express my anguish. Let me be free to speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
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“O God, am I some monster that you never let me alone?
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Even when I try to forget my
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misery in sleep, you terrify with nightmares.
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I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
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I hate my life. Oh, let me alone for these few remaining days.
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What is mere man that you should spend your time persecuting him?
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Must you be his inquisitor every morning and test him every moment of the day?
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Why won't you let me alone—even long enough to spit?
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“Has my sin harmed you, O God, Watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your target, and made my life so heavy a burden to me?
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Why not just pardon my sin and take it all away? For all too soon I'll lie down in the dust and die, and when you look for me, I shall be gone.“
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