Job 7

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¹Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? ✦ ²As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: ✦ ³So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ✦ ⁴When 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. ✦ ⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. ✦ ⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. ✦ ⁷O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. ✦ ⁸The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. ✦ ⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. ✦ ¹⁰He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. ✦ ¹¹Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ✦ ¹²Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? ✦ ¹³When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ✦ ¹⁴Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: ✦ ¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. ✦ ¹⁶I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. ✦ ¹⁷What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? ✦ ¹⁸And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? ✦ ¹⁹How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ✦ ²⁰I 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 to myself? ✦ ²¹And 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, but I shall not be. ✦

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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.

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