# Job 7 
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1. “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? 
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2. Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, 
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3. so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. 
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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. 
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5. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. 
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6. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope. 
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7. “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. 
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8. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. 
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9. As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; 
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10. he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore. 
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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. 
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12. Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? 
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13. When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ 
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14. then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 
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15. so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. 
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16. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. 
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17. What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, 
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18. visit him every morning and test him every moment? 
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19. How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit? 
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20. If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you? 
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21. Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.” 

(ESV)