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Job 7 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 7
Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless
Job Pleads with God
1 “Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth?
​​Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?
2 ​​Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
​​And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,
3 ​​So I have been allotted months of futility,
​​And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
4 ​​When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,
​​And the night be ended?’
​​For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
5 ​​My flesh is caked with worms and dust,
​​My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.
​
6 ​​“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
​​And are spent without hope.
7 ​​Oh, remember that my life is a breath!
​​My eye will never again see good.
8 ​​The eye of him who sees me will see me no more;
​​While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.
9 ​​As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
​​So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
10 ​​He shall never return to his house,
​​Nor shall his place know him anymore.
​
11 ​​“Therefore I will not restrain 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 serpent,
​​That You set a guard over me?
13 ​​When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
​​My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 ​​Then You scare me with dreams
​​And terrify me with visions,
15 ​​So that my soul chooses strangling
​​And death rather than my body.[fn]
16 ​​I loathe my life;
​​I would not live forever.
​​Let me alone,
​​For my days are but a breath.
​
17 ​​“What is man, that You should exalt him,
​​That You should set Your heart on him,
18 ​​That You should visit him every morning,
​​And test him every moment?
19 ​​How long?
​​Will You not look away from me,
​​And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
20 ​​Have I sinned?
​​What have I done to You, O watcher of men?
​​Why have You set me as Your target,
​​So that I am a burden to myself?[fn]
21 ​​Why then do You not pardon my transgression,
​​And take away my iniquity?
​​For now I will lie down in the dust,
​​And You will seek me diligently,
​​But I will no longer be.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Literally my bones
Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint and Jewish tradition read to You.
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