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Job 7 📜 📕 ↷
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
1 THE life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days, as the days of an hired man.📜💬📚
2 As a servant desireth the shadow, and as the hired man tarrieth for the end of his work:📜💬📚
3 so I also have had vain months, & have numbered to my self laborious nights.📜💬📚
4 If I sleep, I shall say: When shall I arise? & again I shall expect the evening, & shall be replenished with sorrows even until darkness.📜💬📚
5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness & filth of dust, my skin is withered, & drawn together.📜💬📚
6 My days have passed more swiftly, than the web is cut of the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.📜💬📚
7 Remember that my life is a wind, & mine eye shall not return to see good things.📜💬📚
8 Neither shall the sight of man behold me: thine eyes upon me, and I shall not stand.📜💬📚
9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall descend to hell shall not ascend.📜💬📚
10 Neither shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.📜💬📚
11 Wherefore I also will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the tribulation of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.📜💬📚
12 Why, am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast compassed me with a prison?📜💬📚
13 If I say: My little bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with my self in my couch:📜💬📚
14 Thou wilt terrify me by dreams, and by visions shake me with horrour.📜💬📚
15 For the which thing my soul hath chosen hanging, and my bones death.📜💬📚
16 I have despaired. I shall now live no longer: Spare me, for my days are nothing.📜💬📚
17 What is man that thou magnifiest him? Or why settest thou thy heart toward him?📜💬📚
18 Thou doest visit him early, and suddenly thou provest him:📜💬📚
19 How long doest thou not spare me, nor suffer me that I swallow my spittle?📜💬📚
20 I have sinned, what shall I do to thee, o keeper of men? Why hast thou set me contrary to thee, and I am become burdenous to my self?📜💬📚
21 Why doest thou not take away my sin, and why doest thou not take away mine iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.📜💬📚
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