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Job 7

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¹ “Has not manⓐ a hard service on earth, and are not hisⓑ days like the days of a hired hand?

² Like a slave who longs forⓒ the shadow, and likeⓓ a hired hand who looks for hisⓔ wages,

³ so I am allotted months ofⓕ emptiness, ⓖand nights of misery are apportioned to me.

⁴ ⓗ When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

⁵ My flesh is clothed withⓘ worms andⓙ dirt; my skin hardens, thenⓚ breaks out afresh.

⁶ My days areⓛ swifter thanⓜ a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

⁷ “Remember that my life is aⓝ breath; my eye will never again see good.

⁸ ⓞ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me,ⓟ I shall be gone.

⁹ Asⓠ the cloud fades and vanishes, so he whoⓡ goes down to Sheol does not come up;

¹⁰ heⓢ returns no more to his house, nor does hisⓣ place know him anymore.

¹¹ “Therefore 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 Am I the sea, orⓧ a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

¹³ ⓨ When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

¹⁴ then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

¹⁵ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than myⓩ bones.

¹⁷ ⓓ What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

¹⁸ ⓔ visit him every morning andⓕ test him every moment?

¹⁹ How long will you notⓖ look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made meⓗ your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?

²¹ Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie inⓘ the earth; you willⓙ seek me,ⓚ but I shall not be.”

#	ESV
1	“Has not manⓐ a hard service on earth, and are not hisⓑ days like the days of a hired hand?
2	Like a slave who longs forⓒ the shadow, and likeⓓ a hired hand who looks for hisⓔ wages,
3	so I am allotted months ofⓕ emptiness, ⓖand nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4	ⓗ When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
5	My flesh is clothed withⓘ worms andⓙ dirt; my skin hardens, thenⓚ breaks out afresh.
6	My days areⓛ swifter thanⓜ a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
7	“Remember that my life is aⓝ breath; my eye will never again see good.
8	ⓞ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me,ⓟ I shall be gone.
9	Asⓠ the cloud fades and vanishes, so he whoⓡ goes down to Sheol does not come up;
10	heⓢ returns no more to his house, nor does hisⓣ place know him anymore.
11	“Therefore 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	Am I the sea, orⓧ a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
13	ⓨ When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’
14	then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
15	so that I would choose strangling and death rather than myⓩ bones.
16	Iⓐ loathe my life; I would not live forever. ⓑLeave me alone, for my days areⓒ a breath.
17	ⓓ What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,
18	ⓔ visit him every morning andⓕ test him every moment?
19	How long will you notⓖ look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
20	If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made meⓗ your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
21	Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie inⓘ the earth; you willⓙ seek me,ⓚ but I shall not be.”

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