| 章 |
| 7:1 |
Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
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| 7:2 |
As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,
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| 7:3 |
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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| 7:4 |
If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.
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| 7:5 |
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
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| 7:6 |
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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| 7:7 |
Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
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| 7:8 |
The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
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| 7:9 |
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
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| 7:10 |
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.
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| 7:11 |
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.
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| 7:12 |
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
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| 7:13 |
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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| 7:14 |
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
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| 7:15 |
So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
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| 7:16 |
I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
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| 7:17 |
What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?
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| 7:18 |
And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?
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| 7:19 |
How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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| 7:20 |
Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?
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| 7:21 |
And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
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