Job Chapter 7

Job excuses his desire for death


7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of an hireling?
7:2 As a servant pants for the shade, and as an hireling looks for his wages:
7:3 So am I made to inherit months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I get up, but the night is long, and I am full of tossings until the dawning of the day.
7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are ened without hope.
7:7 Remember that my life [is] a breath: my eyes shall not return to see good.
7:8 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more. Your eyes [are] on me, and I am not.
7:9 As the cloud fades and vanishes: so he that goes down to Sheolשְׁאוֹל ‎
(/ˈʃiː.oʊl, -əl/ SHEE-ohl, -⁠uhl;Šəʾōl, Tiberian: Šŏʾōl) The Grave also in the Hebrew Bible is a place of still darkness which lies after death. underworld, grave, hell, pit. For more info click here
shall come up no more.
7:10 He shall return no more to his house, or shall his place know him any more.
7:11 Therefore I won’t hold my mouth; I will speak in the agony of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job argues with God


7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that You sets a watch over me?
7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
7:14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
7:15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
7:16 I am wasting away; I wouldn’t live always. Let me alone, for my days [are] vanity.
7:17 What [is] man, that you should magnify him? and that You should set your heart on him?
7:18 and visit him every morning, and trying him every moment?
7:19 How long will You not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spit?
7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden on myself?
7:21 And why don’t You pardon my offense, and take away my wickedness? For now shall I lie down in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I [will] not be.

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