Thematic Bible

Job 7:1

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

Job 7:2

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,

Job 7:3

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

Job 7:4

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

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Job 7:7

"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Job 7:8

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

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

Job 7:10

he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 7:11

"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.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 7:12

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

Job 7:13

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'

Job 7:14

then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:15

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 7:16

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 7:17

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

Job 7:18

visit him every morning and test him every moment?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 7:19

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 7:20

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

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."