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And his days as the days of a hired worker?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As a servant desires the shadow, "" And as a hired worker expects his wage,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, "" And they numbered nights of misery to me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, "" And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, "" And a clod of dust, "" My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My days swifter than a loom, "" And they are consumed without hope.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember that my life [is] a breath, "" My eye does not turn back to see good.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, "" So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He does not turn to his house again, "" Nor does his place discern him again.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in 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 [monster], or a dragon, "" That You set a watch over me?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When I said, My bed comforts me, "" In my talking He takes away my couch.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And You have frightened me with dreams, "" And You terrify me from visions,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And my soul chooses strangling, "" Death rather than my bones.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And inspect him in the mornings, "" [And] in the evenings try him?<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I have sinned, what do I do to You, "" O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, "" And I am for a burden to myself—and what?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You do not take away my transgression, "" And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, "" Because now, I lie down in dust, "" And You have sought me—and I am not!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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