Thematic Bible
Job 7:1 (show verse)
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.
Job 7:2 (show verse)
It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid.
Job 7:3 (show verse)
I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
Job 7:4 (show verse)
I go to bed and I think: When will it be morning? But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
Job 7:5 (show verse)
My skin is clothed with worms and scabs. My flesh breaks open filled with pus.
Job 7:6 (show verse)
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.
Job 7:7 (show verse)
O God, remember that my life is but a breath. I will never again see good.
Job 7:8 (show verse)
You see me now but not for long. Your eyes will be on me but I will be dead.
Job 7:9 (show verse)
Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back.
Job 7:10 (show verse)
They are gone forever from their home. They will not be seen again.
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Job 7:11 (show verse)
I will not keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. I must complain in my bitterness.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:12 (show verse)
Am I a sea monster that you place a guard on me?
Job 7:13 (show verse)
When I think: 'My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep,
Job 7:14 (show verse)
you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.'
Job 7:15 (show verse)
I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
Job 7:16 (show verse)
I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.
Job 7:17 (show verse)
What is man that you should magnify him and set your mind on him?
Job 7:18 (show verse)
For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 7:19 (show verse)
How long will you keep looking at me and let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
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Job 7:20 (show verse)
Have I sinned? What have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why have you made me your target? Am I a burden to you?
Job 7:21 (show verse)
Why not just pardon my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.