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7:1  "Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
7:2  like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid.
7:3  I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
7:4  Lying in bed, I think, 'When will it be morning?' But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
7:5  My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
7:6  "My days fly faster than a weaver's shuttle. They end without hope.
7:7  O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
7:8  You see me now, but not for long. You will look for me, but I will be gone.
7:9  Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
7:10  They are gone forever from their home--never to be seen again.
7:11  "I cannot keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. My bitter soul must complain.
7:12  Am I a sea monster or a dragon that you must place me under guard?
7:13  I think, 'My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,'
7:14  but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
7:15  I would rather be strangled--rather die than suffer like this.
7:16  I hate my life and don't want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
7:17  "What are people, that you should make so much of us, that you should think of us so often?
7:18  For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
7:19  Why won't you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!
7:20  If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you?
7:21  Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone."