Thematic Bible
Job 7:1 (show verse)
"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?
Job 7:2 (show verse)
Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
Job 7:3 (show verse)
So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Job 7:4 (show verse)
When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
Job 7:5 (show verse)
My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].
Job 7:6 (show verse)
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.
Job 7:7 (show verse)
Remember that my life [is] a breath; my eye will not return to see good.
Job 7:8 (show verse)
The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.
Job 7:9 (show verse)
A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.
Job 7:10 (show verse)
He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:11 (show verse)
"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.
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, and my couch will ease my complaint,'
Job 7:14 (show verse)
then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me.
Job 7:15 (show verse)
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
Job 7:16 (show verse)
I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Job 7:17 (show verse)
"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},
Job 7:18 (show verse)
so that you visit him {every morning}, you test him {every moment}?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:19 (show verse)
{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:20 (show verse)
[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?
Job 7:21 (show verse)
And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but {I will be no more}."