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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Is not all human life a struggle?</p><p class="line2">Our lives are like that of a hired hand,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>like a worker who longs for the shade,</p><p class="line2">like a servant waiting to be paid.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I, too, have been assigned months of futility,</p><p class="line2">long and weary nights of misery.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’</p><p class="line2">But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My body is covered with maggots and scabs.</p><p class="line2">My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.</p><p class="hdg">Job Cries Out to God</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.</p><p class="line2">They end without hope.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>O God, remember that my life is but a breath,</p><p class="line2">and I will never again feel happiness.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You see me now, but not for long.</p><p class="line2">You will look for me, but I will be gone.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes,</p><p class="line2">those who die<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> will not come back.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They are gone forever from their home—</p><p class="line2">never to be seen again.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“I cannot keep from speaking.</p><p class="line2">I must express my anguish.</p><p class="line2">My bitter soul must complain.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Am I a sea monster or a dragon</p><p class="line2">that you must place me under guard?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I think, ‘My bed will comfort me,</p><p class="line2">and sleep will ease my misery,’</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but then you shatter me with dreams</p><p class="line2">and terrify me with visions.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I would rather be strangled—</p><p class="line2">rather die than suffer like this.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I hate my life and don’t want to go on living.</p><p class="line2">Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“What are people, that you should make so much of us,</p><p class="line2">that you should think of us so often?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For you examine us every morning</p><p class="line2">and test us every moment.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Why won’t you leave me alone,</p><p class="line2">at least long enough for me to swallow!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</p><p class="line2">O watcher of all humanity?</p><p class="line1">Why make me your target?</p><p class="line2">Am I a burden to you?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why not just forgive my sin</p><p class="line2">and take away my guilt?</p><p class="line1">For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.</p><p class="line2">When you look for me, I will be gone.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">who go down to Sheol.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">target, so that I am a burden to myself?</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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