Job 7
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?🔗🔍
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:🔗🔍
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.🔗🔍
4When 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.🔗🔍
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.🔗🔍
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.🔗🔍
7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.🔗🔍
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.🔗🔍
9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.🔗🔍
10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.🔗🔍
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.🔗🔍
12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?🔗🔍
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;🔗🔍
14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:🔗🔍
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.🔗🔍
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.🔗🔍
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?🔗🔍
18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?🔗🔍
19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?🔗🔍
20I 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?🔗🔍
21And 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.🔗🔍
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:🔗🔍
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.🔗🔍
4When 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.🔗🔍
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.🔗🔍
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.🔗🔍
7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.🔗🔍
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.🔗🔍
9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.🔗🔍
10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.🔗🔍
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.🔗🔍
12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?🔗🔍
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;🔗🔍
14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:🔗🔍
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.🔗🔍
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.🔗🔍
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?🔗🔍
18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?🔗🔍
19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?🔗🔍
20I 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?🔗🔍
21And 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.🔗🔍
🤖 AI Commentary
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