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Job 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 - When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6 - My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:7 - "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:8 - The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:10 - he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 - "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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:14 - then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:17 - What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 - How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 - Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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