Job 7
7
Futility of Days
1“Does not man have hard labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired laborer?
2Like a slave longing for the shadow, or a hired man waiting for his pay,
3so I have inherited months of futility, and nights of distress have been appointed to me.
4When I lay down I say, “When will I rise?” The night drags on, and I toss until the day dawns.
5My flesh is clothed with maggots and clods of dirt; My skin is broken and festering.
6My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope.
7Remember, my life is but a breath; my eyes will not see goodness again!
8The eye that sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more.
9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into Sheol does not come up;
10he will never return to his house, his place does not know him.
11“So I will not keep silent; I will speak in the distress of my spirit, I will complain in bitterness of soul.
12Am I a sea, or a monster of the deep that You have set a watch over me?
13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’
14then You frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions,
15so that my soul prefers strangulation, and my bones death.
16I despise it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a vapor.
17“What is mankind, that You magnify him, that You set Your heart on him,
18that You visit him every morning, and test him in every moment?
19Will You never look away from me, or let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
20Have I sinned— what have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target? Have I become a burden to You?
21Why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You will search for me, but I will be gone.”
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Job 7
7
Job Remonstrates with God
1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow,
and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work;
3so am I made to possess months of vanity,
and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4When I lie down, I say,
When shall I arise, and the night be gone?
And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;
my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
and are spent without hope.
7O remember that my life is wind:
mine eye shall no more see good.
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more:
thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away;
so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
10He shall return no more to his house,
neither shall his place know him any more.
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a whale,
that thou settest a watch over me?
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me,
my couch shall ease my complaint;
14then thou scarest me with dreams,
and terrifiest me through visions:
15so that my soul chooseth strangling,
and death rather than my life.
16I loathe it; I would not live alway:
let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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Ps 8.4; 144.3. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?
and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18and that thou shouldest visit him every morning,
and try him every moment?
19How long wilt thou not depart from me,
nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee,
O thou preserver of men?
Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee,
so that I am a burden to myself?
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression,
and take away mine iniquity?
For now shall I sleep in the dust;
and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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