Job 7

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1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? Job 7:1WEB
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, Job 7:2WEB
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. Job 7:3WEB
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. Job 7:4WEB
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. Job 7:5WEB
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. Job 7:6WEB
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. Job 7:7WEB
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. Job 7:8WEB
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. Job 7:9WEB
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more. Job 7:10WEB
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. Job 7:11WEB
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? Job 7:12WEB
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’ Job 7:13WEB
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions, Job 7:14WEB
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. Job 7:15WEB
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. Job 7:16WEB
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him, Job 7:17WEB
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? Job 7:18WEB
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? Job 7:19WEB
20 If 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? Job 7:20WEB
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.” Job 7:21WEB

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