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Job 7

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"Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

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

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

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When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

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

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

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

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The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

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

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he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.

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"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.

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Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

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

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then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

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

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

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What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,

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dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

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How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

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If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?

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Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."

Job 8

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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

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"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

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If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.

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If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

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if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.

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And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

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"For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;

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for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

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Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?

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"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

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While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

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Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.

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His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.

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He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.

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He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

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His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

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If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'

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Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.

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"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."

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