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A servant waits for the end of the day so that he can rest.
    A worker waits for his master to pay him.
But there is nothing for me to wait for.
    I wait for many months and nothing happens.
    Every night, I am always sad.
When I lie down at night to sleep,
    I think, “How soon will the night end?”
But the night continues and I cannot sleep.
    Finally, dawn comes.

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Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(A)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(B)
so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.(C)
When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’(D)
    The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.(E)

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