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UST JOB Chapter 7

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7 “Life is very difficult for all of us on this earth!

Like manual laborers, our days are long and hard.

2 We are like slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool of evening.

We are like workers who have to wait to be paid.

3 Like a slave, I am enduring a time when it feels useless to be alive.

I have been experiencing many miserable nights.

4 When I go to bed I say, ‘I hope I will be able to sleep for a long time!’

But I never really get to sleep. I am restless right through to the morning.

5 My body is covered with maggots and dirt;

pus oozes out of my open sores.

6 I am running out of days faster than a shuttle releases yarn into a loom,

and I have no reason to hope that my life will end well.

7 God, remember that my life will soon end.

I do not think that I will ever be happy again.

8 God, you see me now,

but after I die, you will not see me anymore.

You may look for me then, but you will not find me, because I will not exist.

9 Just as a cloud never appears in the sky again once it fades,

so when people die and go to the place where dead people are, they never return to earth.

10 They never return and live in their houses again.

11 So I will say everything I want to say.

I will speak because I am so upset.

I will complain because I am so bitter.

12 God, you do not need to watch what I am doing so closely!

I am not a dangerous sea monster!

13 Sometimes I think that if I could just go to sleep, I would stop suffering;

my pain would be less while I was sleeping.

14 But then you make me have terrible nightmares!

15 And I wish someone would kill me by choking me

so that I would not have to stay alive and suffer so much.

16 I hate being alive and suffering so much!

I do not want to live any longer!

Stop afflicting me, because I will only be alive for a short time.

17 We human beings are not very important!

You should not think that we are so important that you need to pay attention to what we do.

18 You do not need to check every morning to see what we are doing!

You do not need to evaluate us at every moment!

19 I wish you would stop watching me

and leave me alone for at least a little while!

20 You watch me constantly,

but if I sin, that certainly does not harm you!

I feel as if I am your target and that you are shooting at me!

You act as if I am bothering you all the time!

21 If I have done wrong things, you could just forgive me.

I am going to die soon.

When I do, then if you decide you want us to be friends, it will be too late, because I will be dead.”

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