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ASV: Job 7

Chapters

[1] Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?

And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

[2] As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow,

And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

[3] So am I made to possess months of misery,

And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

[4] When I lie down, I say,

When shall I arise, and the night be gone?

And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

[5] My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;

My skin closeth up, and breaketh 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:

Mine eye shall no more see good.

[8] The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;

Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

[9] As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,

So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

[10] He shall return no more to his house,

Neither shall his place know him any more.

[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.

[12] Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,

That thou settest a watch over me?

[13] When I say, My bed shall comfort me,

My couch shall ease my complaint;

[14] Then thou scarest me with dreams,

And terrifiest me through visions:

[15] So that my soul chooseth strangling,

And death rather than these my bones.

[16] I loathe my life; I would not live alway:

Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

[17] What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him,

And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

[18] And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,

And try him every moment?

[19] How long wilt thou not look away from me,

Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

[20] If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?

Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee,

So that I am a burden to myself?

[21] And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?

For now shall I lie down in the dust;

And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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