Job 7:1 - 7:21 | ASV

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¹Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

²As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

³So am I made to possess months of misery, 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 closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

⁸The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol 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.

¹²Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, 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 `these' my bones.

¹⁶I loathe `my life'; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹⁷What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

¹⁸And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

¹⁹How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

²⁰If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for 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 lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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