Job 7
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? |
| 2 | As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages; |
| 3 | So am I made to possess—months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. |
| 4 | When I lie down, I say: ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. |
| 5 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh. |
| 6 | My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope. |
| 7 | O remember that my life is a breath; Mine eye shall no more see good. |
| 8 | The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; While Thine eyes are upon me, I am gone. |
| 9 | As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. |
| 10 | He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more. |
| 11 | Therefore 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 sea-monster, That Thou settest a watch over me? |
| 13 | When I say: ‘My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint’; |
| 14 | Then Thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions; |
| 15 | So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones. |
| 16 | I loathe it; I shall not live alway; Let me alone; for my days are vanity. |
| 17 | What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, And that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him, |
| 18 | And that Thou shouldest remember him every morning, And try him every moment? |
| 19 | How long wilt Thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? |
| 20 | If 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? |
| 21 | And 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, but I shall not be. |