[[Job 6|<< Job 6]] | [[Job|Job]] | [[Job 8|Job 8 >>]] ### Job 7 1 _IS_ _there_ not an appointed time to man upon earth? _are_ _not_ his days also like the days of an hireling? ^1 2 As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for _the_ _reward_ _of_ his work: ^2 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ^3 4 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. ^4 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. ^5 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ^6 7 O remember that my life _is_ wind: mine eye shall no more see good. ^7 8 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no _more:_ thine eyes _are_ upon me, and I _am_ not. ^8 9 _As_ the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no _more_. ^9 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. ^10 11 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. ^11 12 _Am_ I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? ^12 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ^13 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: ^14 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, _and_ death rather than my life. ^15 16 I loathe _it;_ I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days _are_ vanity. ^16 17 What _is_ man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? ^17 18 And _that_ thou shouldest visit him every morning, _and_ try him every moment? ^18 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ^19 20 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? ^20 21 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_. ^21