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\c 7
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\q1
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\v 1 "People need to work hard on this earth like soldiers do;
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\q1 all during the time that we are alive, we need to work as hard as any hired worker.
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\v 2 We are like slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool of evening,
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\q2 and we are like workers who keep waiting to be paid.
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\v 3 God has given to me many months in which I think that it is useless to remain alive;
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\q1 he has assigned to me many nights during which I feel miserable.
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\v 4 When I lie down at night I say, 'How long will it be until I get up?'
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\q2 But the nights are long, and I toss on my bed until the dawn.
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\v 5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs;
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\q2 pus oozes out of my open sores.
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\v 6 My days pass as quickly as a weaver's shuttle;
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\q2 when one day ends, I never expect that things will be better the next day.
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\q1
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\v 7 God, do not forget that my life is as short as a single breath;
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\q2 I think that I will never again experience being happy.
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\q1
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\v 8 God, you see me now,
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\q2 but some day you will not see me anymore.
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\q2 You will search for me, but I will be gone because I will be dead.
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\v 9 Like a cloud passes and disappears,
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\q2 people die and descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return;
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\v 10 they never return to their houses,
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\q2 and the people who are still alive do not remember them anymore.
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\v 11 So I will not be silent;
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\q2 while I am suffering, I will speak;
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\q1 I will complain to God about what has happened to me
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\q2 because I am very angry.
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\q1
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\v 12 God, why do you watch closely what I am doing?
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\q2 Do you think that I am a dangerous sea monster?
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\v 13 When I lie down at night, I say to myself, 'I will go to sleep and stop suffering;
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\q2 my pain will be less while I am sleeping.'
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\q1
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\v 14 But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid;
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\q2 you give me visions that terrify me;
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\v 15 these things make me wish that someone would strangle me to death,
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\q2 rather than for me to continue to be alive when I am only a bunch of bones.
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\v 16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many more years.
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\q2 Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short time.
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\v 17 We human beings are not very important;
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\q2 so why do you pay so much attention to us ?
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\v 18 You look at us every morning to see what we are doing,
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\q2 and you
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examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
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\q1
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\v 19 When will you stop looking at me and leave me alone for a little time, long enough to swallow my own spit?
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\v 20 Why do you watch me constantly?
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\q2 If I sin, that certainly does not harm you!
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\q1 Why have you set me up like a target to shoot at?
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\q2 Do you consider me to be a heavy load that you are forced to carry?
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\q1
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\v 21 If I have sinned, are you not able to forgive me
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\q2 for the wrong things that I have done?
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\q1 Soon I will lie in my grave;
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\q2 you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone."
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