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Job 7 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job 7:1

Job 7:1"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Job 7:2

Job 7:2Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Job 7:3

Job 7:3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

Job 7:4

Job 7:4If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

Job 7:5

Job 7:5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

Job 7:6

Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

Job 7:7

Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 7:8

Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Job 7:9

Job 7:9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

Job 7:10

Job 7:10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

Job 7:11

Job 7:11"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.

Job 7:12

Job 7:12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

Job 7:13

Job 7:13If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"

Job 7:14

Job 7:14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:15

Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

Job 7:16

Job 7:16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

Job 7:17

Job 7:17"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

Job 7:18

Job 7:18And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?

Job 7:19

Job 7:19Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

Job 7:20

Job 7:20If I have sinned - what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

Job 7:21

Job 7:21And why 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 be gone."
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