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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 7</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/7-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 7</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Job Continues: Life Seems Futile <a href="/job/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?</a> <a href="/job/7-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:</a> <a href="/job/7-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.</a> <a href="/job/7-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.</a> <a href="/job/7-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.</a> <a href="/job/7-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.</a> <a href="/job/7-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.</a> <a href="/job/7-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.</a> <a href="/job/7-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.</a> <a href="/job/7-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.</a> <a href="/job/7-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</a> <a href="/job/7-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?</a> <a href="/job/7-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;</a> <a href="/job/7-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:</a> <a href="/job/7-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.</a> <a href="/job/7-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16I loathe my life ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.</a> <a href="/job/7-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,</a> <a href="/job/7-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?</a> <a href="/job/7-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?</a> <a href="/job/7-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?</a> <a href="/job/7-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/7-1.htm">Job excuses his desire of death.</a> 12. <a href="/job/7-12.htm">He complains of his own restlessness, and reasons with God.</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </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></td></tr></table><div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a> <iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>