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Job 7:1-21

1 Do not human beings have a hard service on earth,
   and are not their days like the days of a laborer?
2 Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
   and like laborers who look for their wages,
3 so I am allotted months of emptiness,
   and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4 When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I rise?’
   But the night is long,
   and I am full of tossing until dawn.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
   my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
   and come to their end without hope.[a]
7 “Remember that my life is a breath;
   my eye will never again see good.
8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
   while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
9 As the cloud fades and vanishes,
   so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
10 they return no more to their houses,
   nor do their places know them any more.
11 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
   I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
   I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I the Sea, or the Dragon,
   that you set a guard over me?
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
   my couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
   and terrify me with visions,
15 so that I would choose strangling
   and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
   Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
17 What are human beings, that you make so much of them,
   that you set your mind on them,
18 visit them every morning,
   test them every moment?
19 Will you not look away from me for a while,
   let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
   Why have you made me your target?
   Why have I become a burden to you?
21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
   and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
   you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Job's Prayer of Anguish

One day the Frog Prince was praying to the great frog in the sky, asking that his one wish be granted--that a princess might find him, fall in love with him, and give him a magical kiss that would turn him back into a prince again. In the middle of the frog prince's prayer, a voice from the heavens interrupted him and and great frog in the sky said, "I have good news and bad news for you." After the initial shock wore off, the frog prince asked nervously, "What's the good news?"

The great frog in the sky said, "Tomorrow you will meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you." Momentarily forgetting about the bad news, the frog prince said, "That's great! Where will I meet this beautiful young girl? At the royal palace?" The great frog in the sky replied, "Actually, no. That's the bad news. You'll meet each other in her biology class."