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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><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" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job Continues</h5><h3 class="s1">Why Is Life So Hard?</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.1" class="v18_7_1">1</span>Why is life so hard?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_1">Why do we suffer?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.2" class="v18_7_2">2</span>We are slaves in search of shade;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_2">we are laborers longing</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_2">for our wages.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.3" class="v18_7_3">3</span>God has made my days drag on</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_3">and my nights miserable.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.4" class="v18_7_4">4</span>I pray for night to end,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_4">but it stretches out</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_4">while I toss and turn.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.5" class="v18_7_5">5</span>My parched skin is covered</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_5">with worms, dirt, and sores,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.6" class="v18_7_6">6</span>and my days are running out</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_6">quicker than the thread</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_6">of a fast-moving needle.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Don't Forget!</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.7" class="v18_7_7">7</span>I beg you, God, don't forget!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_7">My life is just a breath,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_7">and trouble lies ahead.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.8" class="v18_7_8">8</span>I will vanish from sight,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_8">and no one, including you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_8">will ever see me again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.9" class="v18_7_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.7.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will disappear in the grave</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_9">or vanish from sight</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_9">like a passing cloud.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.10" class="v18_7_10">10</span>Never will I return home;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_10">soon I will be forgotten.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.11" class="v18_7_11">11</span>And so, I cry out to you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_11">in agony and distress.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.12" class="v18_7_12">12</span>Am I the sea or a sea monster?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_12">Is that why you imprison me?<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.7.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.13" class="v18_7_13">13</span>I go to bed, hoping for rest,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.14" class="v18_7_14">14</span>but you torture me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_14">with terrible dreams.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_14">* </span><span class="v18_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.15" class="v18_7_15">15</span>I'd rather choke to death</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_15">than live in this body.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.16" class="v18_7_16">16</span>Leave me alone and let me die;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_16">my life has no meaning.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.7.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.17" class="v18_7_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.7.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> What makes you so concerned</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_17">about us humans?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.18" class="v18_7_18">18</span>Why do you test us</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_18">from sunrise to sunset?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.19" class="v18_7_19">19</span>Won't you look away</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_19">just long enough</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_19">for me to swallow?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.20" class="v18_7_20">20</span>Why do you watch us so closely?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_20">What's it to you, if I sin?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_20">Why am I your target</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_20">and such a heavy burden?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.7.21" class="v18_7_21">21</span>Why do you refuse to forgive?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_7_21">Soon you won't find me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_7_21">because I'll be dead.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sea monster … imprison me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">“Sea monster” translates the Hebrew word “Tannin,” which was possibly a sea monster similar to Leviathan (3.8), Rahab (9.13), and Behemoth (40.15). According to 38.8-11, God makes the sea his prisoner by setting its boundaries.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">my life … meaning: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “my life will soon be over.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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