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Job 7:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

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Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.

“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.