Job 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Life Seems Futile

Job 7:1

Job 7:1"Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Job 7:2

Job 7:2Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

Job 7:3

Job 7:3so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

Job 7:4

Job 7:4When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

Job 7:5

Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

Job 7:6

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

Job 7:7

Job 7:7"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Job 7:8

Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

Job 7:9

Job 7:9As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

Job 7:10

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

Job 7:11

Job 7:11"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.

Job 7:12

Job 7:12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

Job 7:13

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

Job 7:14

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

Job 7:15

Job 7:15so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 7:16

Job 7:16I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 7:17

Job 7:17What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,

Job 7:18

Job 7:18dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:19

Job 7:19How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

Job 7:20

Job 7:20If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?

Job 7:21

Job 7:21Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."

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Job 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Life Seems Futile

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