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Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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