Job 7

1 “Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
2 Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
4 When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
10 He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
13 When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
14 even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
15 so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,
18 that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?
19 Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?[a]
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

Cross References 48

  • 1. Job 14:14; Isaiah 40:2
  • 2. S Job 5:7
  • 3. S Leviticus 25:50; Job 14:6
  • 4. Job 14:1; Ecclesiastes 2:23
  • 5. S Leviticus 19:13; S Job 14:6
  • 6. Job 16:7; Psalms 6:6; Psalms 42:3; Psalms 56:8; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Isaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 9:1; Lamentations 1:2,16
  • 7. Deuteronomy 28:67
  • 8. ver 13-14
  • 9. Job 17:14; Job 21:26; Job 24:20; Job 25:6; Isaiah 14:11
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 28:35
  • 11. Job 9:25; Psalms 39:5; Isaiah 38:12
  • 12. Job 13:15; Job 14:19; Job 17:11,15; Job 19:10; Psalms 37:4; Psalms 52:9
  • 13. ver 16; Genesis 27:46; Ps 39:4,5,11; Psalms 62:9; Psalms 78:39; Psalms 89:47; Psalms 144:4; Ecclesiastes 7:15; S James 4:14
  • 14. Job 10:20; Job 9:25
  • 15. S Job 3:13; Job 8:18; Job 15:29; Job 20:7,9,21; Job 27:17; Psalms 37:36; Psalms 103:16; Isaiah 41:12; John 16:16; Acts 20:25
  • 16. S Job 3:25
  • 17. S Job 3:13; Job 11:8; Job 14:13; Job 17:16; Job 26:6; Job 38:17; Amos 9:2
  • 18. 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 30:15
  • 19. Job 18:21; Job 21:18; Job 27:21,23; Psalms 58:9; Jeremiah 18:17; Jeremiah 19:8
  • 20. S ver 8; Psalms 37:10; Psalms 104:35; Job 8:18
  • 21. Job 9:35; Job 13:13; Psalms 22:2; Psalms 40:9
  • 22. Job 10:1; Psalms 6:3; Isaiah 38:15,17
  • 23. ver 13; Job 9:27; Job 21:4; Job 23:2
  • 24. S 1 Samuel 1:10; S Job 6:3
  • 25. Job 38:8-11
  • 26. S Genesis 1:21; Ezekiel 32:2-3
  • 27. ver 20; Isaiah 1:14
  • 28. S ver 11; Job 9:27
  • 29. Job 9:34
  • 30. S Genesis 41:8; S Job 3:26
  • 31. 1 Kings 19:4; John 4:3
  • 32. Job 6:9; Revelation 9:6
  • 33. S 1 Kings 19:4; Job 9:21; Job 10:1
  • 34. S Job 3:22
  • 35. ver 19; Job 10:20; Psalms 39:13
  • 36. S ver 7
  • 37. S Job 4:19; Job 22:2; Psalms 8:4; Psalms 144:3; Hebrews 2:6
  • 38. Psalms 73:14
  • 39. Job 23:10; Psalms 139:23
  • 40. Job 14:3; Psalms 17:3; Psalms 26:2; Psalms 66:10; Psalms 139:1-6; Psalms 143:2
  • 41. S ver 16
  • 42. Job 9:18; Job 13:26; Job 14:6; Job 27:2; Psalms 139:7
  • 43. Job 35:6; Jeremiah 7:19
  • 44. S Job 6:4; Job 16:12
  • 45. S ver 12
  • 46. Job 9:28; Job 10:14; Job 16:6; Psalms 119:120; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 1:3
  • 47. S Genesis 3:19; Job 10:9; Job 34:15; Psalms 7:5; Psalms 22:15; Psalms 90:3; Psalms 104:29
  • 48. S ver 8; S Job 3:13

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "I have become a burden to myself."

Job 7 Commentaries

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