Job 7

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(Job 7:1) {Is there} not an appointed time to man upon earth? {are not} his days also like the days of an hireling?
(Job 7:2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for {the reward of} his work:
(Job 7:3) So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
(Job 7:4) 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.
(Job 7:5) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
(Job 7:6) My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
(Job 7:7) O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
(Job 7:8) The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not.
(Job 7:9) {As} the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no {more}.
(Job 7:10) He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
(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) {Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
(Job 7:13) When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
(Job 7:14) Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
(Job 7:15) So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life.
(Job 7:16) I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
(Job 7:17) What {is} man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
(Job 7:18) And {that} thou shouldest visit him every morning, {and} try him every moment?
(Job 7:19) How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
(Job 7:20) I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
(Job 7:21) And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.
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