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    Job · 21 verses

    Job 7

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    Job asks the watcher of mankind to leave him alone for the length of a swallow, which is a remarkably small interval in which to stage an immense confrontation.

    A life measured by waitingvv. 1–10

    Job begins with the common misery of a worker waiting for shade and wages, then makes the comparison personal: his allotted months are futile, his nights will not finish, and even dawn arrives by dragging itself through the room. His body has become a singularly disagreeable garment, “clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt,” while his days flick away like a shuttle. Life is a breath; death is a cloud that vanishes, a house that will not remember its tenant.

    The watcher and the watchedvv. 11–21

    Then Job stops restraining his mouth and turns directly toward God. The complaint acquires a splendidly odd creature at its centre: is Job the sea, or a monster of the deep, requiring divine custody? Even the bed, advertised as a place of comfort, has been recruited by dreams and visions against him. Job asks why a human being is exalted, attended every morning, and tested every moment, only to plead for one brief reprieve: leave him alone to swallow his spittle. The chapter ends with pardon requested on the edge of disappearance, where the dust is already waiting and the sought-for man will be no more.

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    1. Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

    2. Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

    3. Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

    4. Job 7:4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

    5. Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

    6. Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

    7. Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

    8. Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

    9. Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

    10. Job 7:10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

    11. Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12. Job 7:12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

    13. Job 7:13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

    14. Job 7:14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

    15. Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

    16. Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

    17. Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

    18. Job 7:18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

    19. Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

    20. Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

    21. Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 17Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
    • 17Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
    • 7James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
    • 17Psalms 144:3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
    • 4Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
    • 7Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
    • 1Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
    • 1Job 14:5–6Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
    • 6Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
    • 111 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
    • 11Psalms 40:9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
    • 20Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
    • 1Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
    • 4Job 7:13–14When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
    • 6Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
    • 8Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

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