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# Job 7

[1](#verse-1) “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

[2](#verse-2) As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

[3](#verse-3) so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

[4](#verse-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.

[5](#verse-5) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

[6](#verse-6) My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

[7](#verse-7) Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

[8](#verse-8) The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

[9](#verse-9) As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

[10](#verse-10) He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

[11](#verse-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.

[12](#verse-12) Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

[13](#verse-13) When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’

[14](#verse-14) then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,

[15](#verse-15) so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

[16](#verse-16) I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

[17](#verse-17) What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

[18](#verse-18) that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

[19](#verse-19) How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

[20](#verse-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?

[21](#verse-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.”

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