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Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-1.htm">1</a>“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-1.htm">1</a>"Is not man forced to labor on earth, And are not his days like the days of a hired man?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-1.htm">1</a>Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-1.htm">1</a>Isn't mankind consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-2.htm">2</a>Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-2.htm">2</a>Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-2.htm">2</a>"As a slave who pants for the shade, And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-2.htm">2</a>As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-2.htm">2</a>Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hired man he waits for his pay. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-3.htm">3</a>so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-3.htm">3</a>so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-3.htm">3</a>So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-3.htm">3</a>So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-3.htm">3</a>So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-4.htm">4</a>When I lie down I think, 'How long before I get up?' The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-4.htm">4</a>When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-4.htm">4</a>"When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-4.htm">4</a>When 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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-4.htm">4</a>When I lie down I think: When will I get up? But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-5.htm">5</a>My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-5.htm">5</a>My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-5.htm">5</a>"My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and runs.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-5.htm">5</a>My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-5.htm">5</a>My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">6</a>"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">6</a>My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">6</a>"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And come to an end without hope.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">6</a>My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">6</a>My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle; they come to an end without hope. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-7.htm">7</a>Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-7.htm">7</a>“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-7.htm">7</a>"Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-7.htm">7</a>O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-7.htm">7</a>Remember that my life is but a breath. My eye will never again see anything good. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">8</a>The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">8</a>The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">8</a>"The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer; Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">8</a>The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">8</a>The eye of anyone who looks on me will no longer see me. Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">9</a>As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">9</a>As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">9</a>"When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">9</a>As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">9</a>As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-10.htm">10</a>He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-10.htm">10</a>he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-10.htm">10</a>"He will not return again to his house, Nor will his place know him anymore.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-10.htm">10</a>He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-10.htm">10</a>He will never return to his house; his hometown will no longer remember him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-11.htm">11</a>"Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-11.htm">11</a>“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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-11.htm">11</a>"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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-11.htm">11</a>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><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-11.htm">11</a>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. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-12.htm">12</a>Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-12.htm">12</a>Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-12.htm">12</a>"Am I the sea, or the sea monster, That You set a guard over me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-12.htm">12</a>Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-12.htm">12</a>Am I the sea or a sea monster, that You keep me under guard? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-13.htm">13</a>When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-13.htm">13</a>When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-13.htm">13</a>"If I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,'</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-13.htm">13</a>When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-13.htm">13</a>When I say: My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-14.htm">14</a>even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-14.htm">14</a>then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-14.htm">14</a>Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me by visions;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-14.htm">14</a>Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-14.htm">14</a>then You frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-15.htm">15</a>so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-15.htm">15</a>so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-15.htm">15</a>So that my soul would choose suffocation, Death rather than my pains.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-15.htm">15</a>So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-15.htm">15</a>so that I prefer strangling-- death rather than life in this body. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-16.htm">16</a>I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-16.htm">16</a>I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-16.htm">16</a>"I waste away; I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-16.htm">16</a>I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-16.htm">16</a>I give up! I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-17.htm">17</a>"What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-17.htm">17</a>What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-17.htm">17</a>"What is man that You magnify him, And that You are concerned about him,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-17.htm">17</a>What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-17.htm">17</a>What is man, that You think so highly of him and pay so much attention to him? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-18.htm">18</a>that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-18.htm">18</a>visit him every morning and test him every moment?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-18.htm">18</a>That You examine him every morning And try him every moment?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-18.htm">18</a>And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-18.htm">18</a>You inspect him every morning, and put him to the test every moment. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-19.htm">19</a>Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-19.htm">19</a>How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-19.htm">19</a>"Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-19.htm">19</a>How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-19.htm">19</a>Will You ever look away from me, or leave me alone long enough to swallow? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/7.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-20.htm">20</a>If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-20.htm">20</a>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?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-20.htm">20</a>"Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-20.htm">20</a>I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-20.htm">20</a>If I have sinned, what have I done to You, Watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I have become a burden to You? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-21.htm">21</a>Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-21.htm">21</a>Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-21.htm">21</a>"Why then 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, but I will not be."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-21.htm">21</a>And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/7-21.htm">21</a>Why not forgive my sin and pardon my transgression? For soon I will lie down in the grave. You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. ESV® Text Edition® (2016): The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv" target="_top">Crossway Bibles</a>. 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