Job 7
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1“Is not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
2like a worker who longs for the shade,
like a servant waiting to be paid.
3I, too, have been assigned months of futility,
long and weary nights of misery.
4Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’
But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
5My body is covered with maggots and scabs.
My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
Job Cries Out to God
6“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
They end without hope.
7O God, remember that my life is but a breath,
and I will never again feel happiness.
8You see me now, but not for long.
You will look for me, but I will be gone.
9Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes,
those who die#7:9 Hebrew who go down to Sheol. will not come back.
10They are gone forever from their home—
never to be seen again.
11“I cannot keep from speaking.
I must express my anguish.
My bitter soul must complain.
12Am I a sea monster or a dragon
that you must place me under guard?
13I think, ‘My bed will comfort me,
and sleep will ease my misery,’
14but then you shatter me with dreams
and terrify me with visions.
15I would rather be strangled—
rather die than suffer like this.
16I hate my life and don’t want to go on living.
Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
17“What are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often?
18For you examine us every morning
and test us every moment.
19Why won’t you leave me alone,
at least long enough for me to swallow!
20If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
O watcher of all humanity?
Why make me your target?
Am I a burden to you?#7:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads target, so that I am a burden to myself?
21Why not just forgive my sin
and take away my guilt?
For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.
When you look for me, I will be gone.”
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Job 7
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Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless
1“Is there not #(Job 14:5, 13, 14); Ps. 39:4a time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?
2Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,
3So I have been allotted #(Job 15:31)months of futility,
And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
4#Deut. 28:67; Job 7:13, 14When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,
And the night be ended?’
For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
5My flesh is #Is. 14:11caked with worms and dust,
My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.
6“My#Job 9:25; 16:22; 17:11; Is. 38:12; (James 4:14) days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
7Oh, remember that #Job 7:16; Ps. 78:39; 89:47my life is a breath!
My eye will never again see good.
8#Job 8:18; 20:9The eye of him who sees me will see me no more;
While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.
9As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So #2 Sam. 12:23he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
10He shall never return to his house,
#Ps. 103:16Nor shall his place know him anymore.
11“Therefore I will #Ps. 39:1, 9not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will #1 Sam. 1:10complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Am I a sea, or a sea serpent,
That You set a guard over me?
13#Job 9:27When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
14Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,
15So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than my body.
16#Job 10:1I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
#Job 14:6Let me alone,
For #Ps. 62:9my days are but a breath.
17“What#Job 22:2; Ps. 8:4; 144:3; Heb. 2:6 is man, that You should exalt him,
That You should set Your heart on him,
18That You should visit him every morning,
And test him every moment?
19How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
20Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, #Ps. 36:6O watcher of men?
Why #Ps. 21:12have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?
21Why then do You not pardon my transgression,
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust,
And You will seek me diligently,
But I will no longer be.”
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