Job 7

Job declares the miseries of man's life: and addresses himself to God.

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[1]⁠

The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

[2]⁠

As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

[3]⁠

So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.

[4]⁠

If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

[5]⁠

My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.

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[6]⁠

My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

[7]⁠

Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.

[8]⁠

Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

[9]⁠

As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

[10]⁠

Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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[11]⁠

Wherefore I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

[12]⁠

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

[13]⁠

If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:

[14]⁠

Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

[15]⁠

So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

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[16]⁠

I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

[17]⁠

What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

[18]⁠

Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.

[19]⁠

How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

[20]⁠

I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?

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[21]⁠

Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

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