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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/7.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Job-7-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“<i>Is there</i> not a time of hard service for man on earth?</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-7-1"><i>Are not</i> his days also like the days of a hired man?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Like a servant who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>earnestly desires the shade,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-2">And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I have been allotted months of futility,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-3">And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-4">And the night be ended?’</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-4">For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My flesh is caked with worms and dust,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-5">My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-6">And are spent without hope.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Oh, remember that my life <i>is</i> a breath!</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-7">My eye will never again see good.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The eye of him who sees me will see me no <i>more;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-7-8"><i>While</i> your eyes <i>are</i> upon me, I shall no longer <i>be.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>As</i> the cloud disappears and vanishes away,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-9">So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He shall never return to his house,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-10">Nor shall his place know him anymore.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-11">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-11">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><i>Am</i> I a sea, or a sea serpent,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-12">That You set a guard over me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-13">My couch will ease my complaint,’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then You scare me with dreams</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-14">And terrify me with visions,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So that my soul chooses strangling</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-15"><i>And</i> death rather than <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>my body.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I loathe <i>my life;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-7-16">I would not live forever.</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-16">Let me alone,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-16">For my days <i>are but</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>a breath.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“What <i>is</i> man, that You should exalt him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-17"><i>That</i> You should set Your heart on him,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That You should <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>visit him every morning,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-18"><i>And</i> test him every moment?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How long?</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-19">Will You not look away from me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-19">And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Have I sinned?</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-20">What have I done to You, O watcher of men?</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-20">Why have You set me as Your target,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-20">So that I am a burden <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>to myself?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why then do You not pardon my transgression,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-21">And take away my iniquity?</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-21">For now I will lie down in the dust,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-21">And You will seek me diligently,</span><br /><span class="text Job-7-21">But I <i>will</i> no longer <i>be.</i>”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13011a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 7:2">Job 7:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pants for</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13024b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 7:15">Job 7:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>my bones</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13025c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 7:16">Job 7:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Without substance, futile</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13027d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 7:18">Job 7:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>attend to</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13029e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 7:20">Job 7:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Jewish tradition <i>to You</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The 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