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When I lie down I say, “When shall I rise?”
    But the night is long,
    and I am full of tossing until dawn.
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
    my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
    and come to their end without hope.[a]

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  1. Job 7:6 Or as the thread runs out

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