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Chapter 7
Job CPDV 7:1  The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.
Job CPDV 7:2  Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,
Job CPDV 7:3  so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
Job CPDV 7:4  If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.
Job CPDV 7:5  My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened.
Job CPDV 7:6  My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
Job CPDV 7:7  Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
Job CPDV 7:8  Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
Job CPDV 7:9  Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.
Job CPDV 7:10  He will not return again to his house, nor will his own place know him any longer.
Job CPDV 7:11  And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.
Job CPDV 7:12  Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?
Job CPDV 7:13  If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”
Job CPDV 7:14  then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,
Job CPDV 7:15  so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
Job CPDV 7:16  I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
Job CPDV 7:17  What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?
Job CPDV 7:18  You visit him at dawn, and you test him unexpectedly.
Job CPDV 7:19  How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?
Job CPDV 7:20  I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
Job CPDV 7:21  Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.