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Jó 7 — Bíblia World English Bible | Gospelmais
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1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
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1"Human life is a struggle, isn't it?It's a life sentence to hard labor.
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2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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2Like field hands longing for quitting timeand working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday,
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3so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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3I'm given a life that meanders and goes nowhere—months of aimlessness, nights of misery!
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4When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
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4I 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!
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5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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5I'm covered with maggots and scabs.My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus.
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6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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6My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles,and then the yarn runs out—an unfinished life!
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7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
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7"God, don't forget that I'm only a puff of air!These eyes have had their last look at goodness.
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8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
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8And your eyes have seen the last of me;even while you're looking, there'll be nothing left to look at.
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9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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9When a cloud evaporates, it's gone for good;those who go to the grave never come back.
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10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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10They don't return to visit their families;never again will friends drop in for coffee.
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11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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11"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.
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12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
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12Are you going to put a muzzle on me,the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?
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13When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’
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13If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better.A little nap will lift my spirits,'
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14then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
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14You come and so scare me with nightmaresand frighten me with ghosts
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15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
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15That I'd rather strangle in the bedclothesthan face this kind of life any longer.
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16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
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16I hate this life! Who needs any more of this?Let me alone! There's nothing to my life—it's nothingbut smoke.
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17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
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17"What are mortals anyway, that you bother with them,that you even give them the time of day?
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18that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
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18That you check up on them every morning,looking in on them to see how they're doing?
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19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
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19Let up on me, will you?Can't you even let me spit in peace?
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20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
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20Even 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?
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21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
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21Why don't you just forgive my sinsand 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."