Job
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Job 7:1  "Human life is a struggle, isn't it? It's a life sentence to hard labor.

Job 7:2  Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday,

Job 7:3  I'm given a life that meanders and goes nowhere-- months of aimlessness, nights of misery!

Job 7:4  I go to bed and think, 'How long till I can get up?' I toss and turn as the night drags on--and I'm fed up!

Job 7:5  I'm covered with maggots and scabs. My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus.

Job 7:6  My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles, and then the yarn runs out--an unfinished life!

Job 7:7  "God, don't forget that I'm only a puff of air! These eyes have had their last look at goodness.

Job 7:8  And your eyes have seen the last of me; even while you're looking, there'll be nothing left to look at.

Job 7:9  When a cloud evaporates, it's gone for good; those who go to the grave never come back.

Job 7:10  They don't return to visit their families; never again will friends drop in for coffee.

Job 7:11  "And so I'm not keeping one bit of this quiet, I'm laying it all out on the table; my complaining to high heaven is bitter, but honest.

Job 7:12  Are you going to put a muzzle on me, the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?

Job 7:13  If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better. A little nap will lift my spirits,'

Job 7:14  You come and so scare me with nightmares and frighten me with ghosts

Job 7:15  That I'd rather strangle in the bedclothes than face this kind of life any longer.

Job 7:16  I hate this life! Who needs any more of this? Let me alone! There's nothing to my life--it's nothing but smoke.

Job 7:17  "What are mortals anyway, that you bother with them, that you even give them the time of day?

Job 7:18  That you check up on them every morning, looking in on them to see how they're doing?

Job 7:19  Let up on me, will you? Can't you even let me spit in peace?

Job 7:20  Even suppose I'd sinned--how would that hurt you? You're responsible for every human being. Don't you have better things to do than pick on me? Why make a federal case out of me?

Job 7:21  Why don't you just forgive my sins and start me off with a clean slate? The way things are going, I'll soon be dead. You'll look high and low, but I won't be around."

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