Job 7
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- 1Is there not an appointed time for man on earth? Are not his days like the days of a hired worker?
- 2Like a servant eagerly waiting for the shadow, and like a hired worker looking for his wages,
- 3so I have been made to endure months of futility, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- 4When I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.
- 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has become loathsome.
- 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- 7O remember that my life is wind; my eye shall no more see good.
- 8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
- 9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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 restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 12Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
- 13When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,'
- 14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
- 15so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
- 16I loathe it; I would not live always. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.
- 17What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him,
- 18and that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
- 19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
- 20I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
- 21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.