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Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint," <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor! <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">visit him every morning and test him every moment?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I have sinned--what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? 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