| 章 |
| 7:1 |
'Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
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| 7:2 |
Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
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| 7:3 |
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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| 7:4 |
When I lie down I say, When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
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| 7:5 |
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
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| 7:6 |
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
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| 7:7 |
'Remember that my life is a breath;my eye will never again see good.
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| 7:8 |
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
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| 7:9 |
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
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| 7:10 |
he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
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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 the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
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| 7:13 |
When I say, My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
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| 7:14 |
then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
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| 7:15 |
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
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| 7:16 |
I loathe my life;I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
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| 7:17 |
What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
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| 7:18 |
dost visit him every morning, and test 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 my spittle?
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| 7:20 |
If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
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| 7:21 |
Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth;thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.'
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