Job 7: (KJV)
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1) Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
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2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
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3) So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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4) When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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5) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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6) My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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7) O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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8) The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
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9) As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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10) He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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11) Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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12) Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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13) When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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14) Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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15) So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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16) I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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17) What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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18) And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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19) How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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20) I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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21) And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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