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“People have a hard struggle on earth.
    Their life is like that of a hired worker.
They are like a slave looking for cool shade
    or a hired worker waiting for payday.
Month after frustrating month has gone by.
    I have suffered night after night.

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“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)
Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(D)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(E)
so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.(F)

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