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Job 7 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whenever I lie down, I say, When <i>will it be</i> day? and whenever I rise up, again <i>I say</i> when <i>will it be</i> evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The eye of him that sees me shall not see me <i>again</i>: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>I am</i> as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.<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 serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet <i>keep</i> my bones from death.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life <i>is</i> vain.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till <i>the time of</i> rest?<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and <i>why</i> am I a burden to thee?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<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>