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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/6.htm" title="Job 6">◄</a> Job 7 <a href="../job/8.htm" title="Job 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22007" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn22007" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22007001" class="ver">1</span><a id="ren22007001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007001-a">a</a> Is not life on earth a drudgery,<a id="rfn22007001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22007001-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">its days like those of a hireling?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007002" class="ver">2</span>Like a slave who longs for the shade,</p> <p class="sl1">a hireling who waits for wages,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007003" class="ver">3</span>So I have been assigned months of futility,</p> <p class="sl1">and troubled nights have been counted off for me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007004" class="ver">4</span>When I lie down I say, “When shall I arise?”</p> <p class="sl1">then the night drags on;</p> <p class="sl1">I am filled with restlessness until the dawn.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007005" class="ver">5</span>My flesh is clothed with worms and scabs;<a id="ren22007005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">my skin cracks and festers;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007006" class="ver">6</span>My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle;</p> <p class="sl1">they come to an end without hope.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007007" class="ver">7</span>Remember that my life is like the wind;<a id="ren22007007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007007-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">my eye will not see happiness again.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007008" class="ver">8</span>The eye that now sees me shall no more behold me;</p> <p class="sl1">when your eye is on me, I shall be gone.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007009" class="ver">9</span>As a cloud dissolves and vanishes,<a id="ren22007009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">so whoever goes down to Sheol shall not come up.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007010" class="ver">10</span>They shall not return home again;</p> <p class="sl1">their place shall know them no more.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007011" class="ver">11</span>My own utterance I will not restrain;</p> <p class="sl1">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;</p> <p class="sl1">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007012" class="ver">12</span><a id="rfn22007012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22007012-1">*</a> Am I the Sea, or the dragon,</p> <p class="sl1">that you place a watch over me?<a id="rfn22007012-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22007012-2">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007013" class="ver">13</span>When I say, “My bed shall comfort me,</p> <p class="sl1">my couch shall ease my complaint,”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007014" class="ver">14</span>Then you frighten me with dreams</p> <p class="sl1">and terrify me with visions,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007015" class="ver">15</span>So that I should prefer strangulation</p> <p class="sl1">and death rather than my existence.<a id="rfn22007015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22007015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007016" class="ver">16</span>I waste away: I will not live forever;<a id="ren22007016-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007016-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">let me alone, for my days are but a breath.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007017" class="ver">17</span><a id="rfn22007017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22007017-1">*</a> What are human beings, that you make much of them,</p> <p class="sl1">or pay them any heed?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007018" class="ver">18</span>You observe them every morning<a id="ren22007018-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22007018-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">and try them at every moment!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007019" class="ver">19</span>How long before you look away from me,</p> <p class="sl1">and let me alone till I swallow my spit?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007020" class="ver">20</span>If I sin, what do I do to you,</p> <p class="sl1">O watcher of mortals?</p> <p class="sl">Why have you made me your target?</p> <p class="sl1">Why should I be a burden for you?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22007021" class="ver">21</span>Why do you not pardon my offense,</p> <p class="sl1">or take away my guilt?</p> <p class="sl">For soon I shall lie down in the dust;</p> <p class="sl1">and should you seek me I shall be gone.</p> 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