So God, stop watching us.\par Leave us alone.\par Let us enjoy our hard life\par until our time is finished.\par
My life is almost finished.\par So leave me alone!\par Let me enjoy the little time I have left,\par
“There is hope for a tree.\par If it is cut down, it can grow again.\par It will keep sending out new branches.\par
I hate my life—I give up.\par I don’t want to live forever.\par Leave me alone!\par My life means nothing!\par
God, you never look away from me.\par You won’t leave me alone for a second.\par
Lord, leave me alone {\cf2\super [242]} \par and let me be happy\par before I am dead and gone.\par
And now the Lord says, “In three years (the way a hired helper counts time) all those people and the things they are proud of will be gone. There will be a few people left, but there will not be many.”