Job:7-8

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* Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? * As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow , and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work : * So am I made to possess months of vanity , and wearisome nights are appointed to me . * When 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 . * My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ; my skin is broken , and become loathsome . * My days are swifter than a weaver 's shuttle , and are spent without hope . * O remember that my life is wind : mine eye shall no more see good . * The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more : thine eyes are upon me , and I am not . * As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away : so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more . * He shall return no more to his house , neither shall his place know him any more . * Therefore I will not refrain my mouth ; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit ; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul . * Am I a sea , or a whale , that thou settest a watch over me ? * When I say , My bed shall comfort me , my couch shall ease my complaint ; * Then thou scarest me with dreams , and terrifiest me through visions : * So that my soul chooseth strangling , and death rather than my life . * I loathe it ; I would not live alway : let me alone ; for my days are vanity . * What is man , that thou shouldest magnify him ? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him ? * And that thou shouldest visit him every morning , and try him every moment ? * How long wilt thou not depart from me , nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ? * I 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 ? * And 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 . * Then answered Bildad the Shuhite , and said , * How long wilt thou speak these things ? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind ? * Doth God pervert judgment ? or doth the Almighty pervert justice ? * If thy children have sinned against him , and he have cast them away for their transgression ; * If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes , and make thy supplication to the Almighty ; * If thou wert pure and upright ; surely now he would awake for thee , and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous . * Though thy beginning was small , yet thy latter end should greatly increase . * For enquire , I pray thee , of the former age , and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : * (For we are but of yesterday , and know nothing , because our days upon earth are a shadow :) * Shall not they teach thee , and tell thee , and utter words out of their heart ? * Can the rush grow up without mire ? can the flag grow without water ? * Whilst it is yet in his greenness , and not cut down , it withereth before any other herb . * So are the paths of all that forget God ; and the hypocrite 's hope shall perish : * Whose hope shall be cut off , and whose trust shall be a spider 's web . * He shall lean upon his house , but it shall not stand : he shall hold it fast , but it shall not endure . * He is green before the sun , and his branch shooteth forth in his garden . * His roots are wrapped about the heap , and seeth the place of stones . * If he destroy him from his place , then it shall deny him , saying , I have not seen thee . * Behold , this is the joy of his way , and out of the earth shall others grow . * Behold , God will not cast away a perfect man , neither will he help the evil doers : * Till he fill thy mouth with laughing , and thy lips with rejoicing . * They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame ; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought . * Then Job answered and said ,

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