Job 7

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¹“Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? ✦ ²Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages, ✦ ³So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me. ✦ ⁴When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, And the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn. ✦ ⁵My flesh is caked with worms and dust, My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh. ✦ ⁶“Mydays are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope. ✦ ⁷Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good. ✦ ⁸The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be. ✦ ⁹As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up. ✦ ¹⁰He shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore. ✦ ¹¹“Therefore 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 a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me? ✦ ¹³When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’ ✦ ¹⁴Then You scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions, ✦ ¹⁵So that my soul chooses strangling And death rather than my body. ✦ ¹⁶I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, For my days are but a breath. ✦ ¹⁷“Whatis man, that You should exalt him, That You should set Your heart on him, ✦ ¹⁸That You should visit him every morning, And test him every moment? ✦ ¹⁹How long? Will You not look away from me, And let me alone till I swallow my saliva? ✦ ²⁰Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself? ✦ ²¹Why then do You not pardon my transgression, And take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, And You will seek me diligently, But I will no longer 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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