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I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You visit him at dawn, and you test him unexpectedly.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>