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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 7 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/7.htm" align="left" 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earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like a slave who longs for the shadow,</span><br /><span class="indent">and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so I am allotted months of emptiness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and nights of misery are apportioned to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’</span><br /><span class="indent">But the night is long,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I am full of tossing till the dawn.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;</span><br /><span class="indent">my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle</span><br /><span class="indent">and come to their end without hope.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Remember that my life is a breath;</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;</span><br /><span class="indent">while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As the cloud fades and vanishes,</span><br /><span class="indent">so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he returns no more to his house,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor does his place know him anymore.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Am I the sea, or a sea monster,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">then you scare me with dreams</span><br /><span class="indent">and terrify me with visions,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so that I would choose strangling</span><br /><span class="indent">and death rather than my bones.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I loathe my life; I would not live forever.</span><br /><span class="indent">Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What is man, that you make so much of him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and that you set your heart on him,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">visit him every morning</span><br /><span class="indent">and test him every moment?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How long will you not look away from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why have you made me your mark?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why have I become a burden to you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you not pardon my transgression</span><br /><span class="indent">and take away my iniquity?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For now I shall lie in the earth;</span><br /><span class="indent">you will seek me, but I shall not be.”</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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