The Book of Job

chapter 7


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verse #1

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?


verse #2

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,


verse #3

so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.


verse #4

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.


verse #5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.


verse #6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.


verse #7

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.


verse #8

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.


verse #9

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.


verse #10

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.


verse #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.


verse #12

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?


verse #13

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’


verse #14

then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,


verse #15

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.


verse #16

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.


verse #17

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,


verse #18

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?


verse #19

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?


verse #20

If 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?


verse #21

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

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