7"Human life is a struggle, isn't it? It's a life sentence to hard labor.H6635H582H776H3117H3117H79162Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday,H5650H7602H6738H7916H6960H64673I'm given a life that meanders and goes nowhere— months of aimlessness, nights of misery!H5157H3391H7723H5999H3915H44874I go to bed and think, 'How long till I can get up?' I toss and turn as the night drags on—and I'm fed up!H7901H559H6965H6153H4059H7646H5076H53995I'm covered with maggots and scabs. My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus.H1320H3847H7415H1487H6083H5785H7280H39886My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles, and then the yarn runs out—an unfinished life!H3117H7043H708H3615H657H86157"God, don't forget that I'm only a puff of air! These eyes have had their last look at goodness.H2142H2416H7307H5869H7725H7200H28968And your eyes have seen the last of me; even while you're looking, there'll be nothing left to look at.H5869H7210H7789H58699When a cloud evaporates, it's gone for good; those who go to the grave never come back.H6051H3615H3212H3381H7585H592710They don't return to visit their families; never again will friends drop in for coffee.H7725H1004H4725H523411"And so I'm not keeping one bit of this quiet, I'm laying it all out on the table; my complaining to high heaven is bitter, but honest.H2820H6310H1696H6862H7307H7878H4751H531512Are you going to put a muzzle on me, the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?H3220H8577H7760H492913If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better. A little nap will lift my spirits,'H559H6210H5162H4904H5375H787914You come and so scare me with nightmares and frighten me with ghostsH2865H2472H1204H238415That I'd rather strangle in the bedclothes than face this kind of life any longer.H5315H977H4267H4194H610616I hate this life! Who needs any more of this? Let me alone! There's nothing to my life—it's nothing but smoke.H3988H2421H5769H2308H3117H189217"What are mortals anyway, that you bother with them, that you even give them the time of day?H582H1431H7896H382018That you check up on them every morning, looking in on them to see how they're doing?H6485H1242H974H728119Let up on me, will you? Can't you even let me spit in peace?H4100H8159H7503H1104H753620Even suppose I'd sinned—how would that hurt you? You're responsible for every human being. Don't you have better things to do than pick on me? Why make a federal case out of me?H2398H6466H5341H120H7760H4645H485321Why don't you just forgive my sins and start me off with a clean slate? The way things are going, I'll soon be dead. You'll look high and low, but I won't be around."H5375H6588H5674H5771H7901H6083H7836
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