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<i>Are not</i> his 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"><i>Is there</i> not an appointed time to man upon earth? <i>are not</i> his days also like the days of an hireling?</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 who earnestly desires the shade, And like a hired man who eagerly looks 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">As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for <i>the reward of</i> his work:</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">So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights 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 am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed 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">When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, And the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.<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, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.</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 flesh is caked with worms and dust, My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.<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 clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.</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 are spent 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 are spent 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">Oh, remember that my life <i>is</i> a breath! My eye will never again see good.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O remember that my life <i>is</i> wind: mine eye shall no more 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 will see me no <i>more;</i> <i>While</i> your eyes <i>are</i> upon me, I shall no longer <i>be.</i><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 that hath seen me shall see me no <i>more</i>: thine eyes <i>are</i> upon me, and I <i>am</i> not.</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"><i>As</i> the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>As</i> the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no <i>more</i>.</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 shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore.<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 shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.</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 restrain 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 refrain 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"><i>Am</i> I a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>Am</i> I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch 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">When 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 shall comfort me, my couch shall 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 thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through 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 my soul chooses strangling <i>And</i> death rather than my body.<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 my soul chooseth strangling, <i>and</i> death rather than my life.</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 <i>my life;</i> I would not live forever. Let me alone, For my days <i>are but</i> a breath.<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 <i>it</i>; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days <i>are</i> vanity.</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 <i>is</i> man, that You should exalt him, <i>That</i> You should set Your heart on him,<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 <i>is</i> man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon 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">That You should visit him every morning, <i>And</i> test him 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">And <i>that</i> thou shouldest visit him every morning, <i>and</i> try 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">How long? Will You not look away from me, And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?<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 wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?</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">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 width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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?</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">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 diligently, But I <i>will</i> no longer <i>be.</i>”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i>.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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