Job Chapter 7

• Job 7:1
  Job.
• Job 7:2
  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
• Job 7:3
  As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
• Job 7:4
  so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
• Job 7:5
  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 7:6
  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
• Job 7:7
  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 7:8
  Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
• Job 7:9
  The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
• Job 7:10
  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
• Job 7:11
  He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
• Job 7:12
  “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 7:13
  Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
• Job 7:14
  When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
• Job 7:15
  then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
• Job 7:16
  so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
• Job 7:17
  I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Job 7:18
  What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
• Job 7:19
  that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
• Job 7:20
  How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
• Job 7:21
  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 7:22
  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....