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Job 7

¹"Isn`t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren`t his days like the days of a hired hand?

²As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, As a hireling who looks for his wages,

³So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁴When I lie down, I say, `When shall I arise, and the night be gone?` I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

⁸The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

¹⁰He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

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.

¹²Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?

¹³When I say, `My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;`

¹⁴Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:

¹⁵So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.

¹⁶I loathe my life. I don`t want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.

¹⁷What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,

¹⁸That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?

¹⁹How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

²⁰If 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?

²¹Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

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Job

Chapter 7

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