Thematic Bible
Job 7:1 (show verse)
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 7:2 (show verse)
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Job 7:3 (show verse)
so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 7:4 (show verse)
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
Job 7:5 (show verse)
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 7:6 (show verse)
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:7 (show verse)
O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:8 (show verse)
The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Job 7:9 (show verse)
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Job 7:10 (show verse)
He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:11 (show verse)
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.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:12 (show verse)
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
Job 7:13 (show verse)
When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
Job 7:14 (show verse)
Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,
Job 7:15 (show verse)
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 7:16 (show verse)
I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Job 7:17 (show verse)
What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
Job 7:18 (show verse)
and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:19 (show verse)
How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:20 (show verse)
If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 7:21 (show verse)
And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.