Thematic Bible
Job 7:1 (show verse)
"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 7:2 (show verse)
Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
Job 7:3 (show verse)
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Job 7:4 (show verse)
When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
Job 7:5 (show verse)
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Job 7:6 (show verse)
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
Job 7:7 (show verse)
"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Job 7:8 (show verse)
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
Job 7:9 (show verse)
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
Job 7:10 (show verse)
he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
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Job 7:11 (show verse)
"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.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:12 (show verse)
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
Job 7:13 (show verse)
When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
Job 7:14 (show verse)
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Job 7:15 (show verse)
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
Job 7:16 (show verse)
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 7:17 (show verse)
What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,
Job 7:18 (show verse)
visit him every morning and test him every moment?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:19 (show verse)
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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Job 7:20 (show verse)
If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
Job 7:21 (show verse)
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."