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Are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hired seruaunt?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For like as a bonde seruaunt desireth the shadowe, and as an hyreling woulde fayne haue the rewarde of his worke:<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When I layde me downe to sleepe, I sayde, O when shall I arise? and measuring the euening, I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My fleshe is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth: my skinne is withered and become horrible.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>O remember that my lyfe is but a winde, and that myne eye shall no more see pleasures:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yea and the eye that hath seene me, shal see me no more: for yer thou fasten thyne eye vpon me, I come to naught.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The cloude is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Nor turne againe into his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me <FI>so<Fi> in prison?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then fearest thou me with dreames, & makest me so afrayde through visions,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What is man that thou doest magnifie him? and that thou settest thy heart vpon him?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thou visitest him early and euery day, euery moment doest thou trie him.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Why goest thou not fro me, nor lettest me alone, so long till I may swalowe downe my spyttle?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I haue offended, what shall I do vnto the, O thou preseruer of men? Why hast thou set me <FI>as a marke<Fi> against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses, and take away myne iniquitie? Behold, nowe must I sleepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning, I shal not be.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<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>