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Job 7
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Chapter 7
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Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his time no better than hired drudgery?
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Like the slave, sighing for the shade, or the workman with no thought but his wages,
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months of delusion I have assigned to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief.
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Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When will it be day?’ Risen I think, ‘How slowly evening comes!’ Restlessly I fret till twilight falls.
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Vermin cover my flesh, and loathsome scabs; my skin is cracked and oozes pus.
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Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving no hope behind.
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Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never again see joy.
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The eye that once saw me will look on me no more, your eyes will turn my way, and I shall not be there.
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As a cloud dissolves and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol never ascends again.
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He never comes home again, and his house knows him no more.
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No wonder then if I cannot keep silence; in the anguish of my spirit I must speak, lament in the bitterness of my soul.
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Am I the Sea, or the Wild Sea Beast,[*a] that you should keep me under watch and guard?
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If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will soothe my pain’,
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you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
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Strangling I would welcome rather, and death itself, than these my sufferings.
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I waste away, my life is not unending; leave me then, for my days are but a breath.
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What is man that you should make so much of him, subjecting him to your scrutiny,
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that morning after morning you should examine him and at every instant test him?
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Will you never take your eyes off me long enough for me to swallow my spittle?
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Suppose I have sinned, what have I done to you, you tireless watcher of mankind? Why do you choose me as your target? Why should I be a burden to you?
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Can you not tolerate my sin, nor overlook my fault? It will not be long before I lie in earth; then you will look for me, but I shall be no more.
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