THE BOOK OF JOB --7
|
Verse |
Graphic |
The Event |
|
|
|
JOB SPEAKS |
|
1 |
|
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? |
|
|
|
Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? |
|
2 |
|
As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for his wages, |
|
3 |
|
so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me. |
|
4 |
|
When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day. |
|
5 |
|
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh. |
|
6 |
|
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope. |
|
7 |
|
Remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall no more see good. |
|
8 |
|
The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone. |
|
9 |
|
As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more. |
|
10 |
|
He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more. |
|
11 |
|
Therefore I will not hold my mouth; I will speak in the trouble of my spirit; |
|
11 |
|
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. |
|
12 |
|
Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me? |
|
13 |
|
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint, |
|
14 |
|
then You scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions; |
|
15 |
|
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life. |
|
16 |
|
I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity. |
|
17 |
|
What is man, that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him, |
|
18 |
|
and visit him every morning, trying him every moment? |
|
19 |
|
Until when will You look away from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle? |
|
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 to myself? |
|
21 |
|
And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. |
CHAPTERS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
