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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</p><p class="line2">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</p><p class="line2">or a hired laborer 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>so I have been allotted months of futility,</p><p class="line2">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’</p><p class="line2">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until 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 clothed with worms and scabs,</p><p class="line2">my skin is broken and festering.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,</p><p class="line2">and they come to an end without hope.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</p><p class="line2">my eyes will never see happiness again.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</p><p class="line2">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</p><p class="line2">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He will never come to his house again;</p><p class="line2">his place will know him no more.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Therefore I will not keep silent;</p><p class="line2">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</p><p class="line2">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</p><p class="line2">that you put me under guard?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When I think my bed will comfort me</p><p class="line2">and my couch will ease my complaint,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>even then you frighten 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>so that I prefer strangling and death,</p><p class="line2">rather than this body of mine.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I despise my life; I would not live forever.</p><p class="line2">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“What is mankind that you make so much of them,</p><p class="line2">that you give them so much attention,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>that you examine them every morning</p><p class="line2">and test them every moment?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Will you never look away from me,</p><p class="line2">or let me alone even for an instant?</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">you who see everything we do?</p><p class="line1">Why have you made me your target?</p><p class="line2">Have I become a burden to you? <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.">a</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Why do you not pardon my offenses</p><p class="line2">and forgive my sins?</p><p class="line1">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</p><p class="line2">you will search for me, but I will be no more.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text <i>I have become a burden to myself.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p 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