Job 7 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? "

" As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: "

" So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed "

" 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. "

" My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. "

" My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. "

" O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. "

" The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes "

" As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up "

" He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know "

" 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. "

" Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch "

" When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; "

" Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: "

" So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. "

" I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. "

" What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart "

" And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? "

" How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? "

" 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 "

" 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, "