Job 7

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¹“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? ✦ ²Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. ✦ ³So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. ✦ ⁴When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. ✦ ⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. ✦ ⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. ✦ ⁷Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. ✦ ⁸The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. ✦ ⁹As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. ✦ ¹⁰He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. ✦ ¹¹Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ✦ ¹²Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? ✦ ¹³When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, ✦ ¹⁴then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, ✦ ¹⁵so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. ✦ ¹⁶I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. ✦ ¹⁷What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, ✦ ¹⁸that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? ✦ ¹⁹Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? ✦ ²⁰If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You? ✦ ²¹Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 10 ·9 Job 14 ·8 Job 9 ·7 Ps 39 ·7 Isa 38 ·6 Job 7 ·6 Job 17 ·5 Job 16 ·5

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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