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Job 7

1 Job sheweth the shortenes and miserie of man’s life.
1.Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an ahyreling.
2.As a servant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling loketh for the end of his worke,
3.So have I had as an inheritance the bmonths of vanitie, and painful nights have been appointed unto me.
4.If I laied me downe, I said, When shal I arise? & measureing the evening I am even ful with tossing to and fro unto the Bildad’s answer. Job.
5.My flesh is cclothed with wormes and filthines of the dust: my skin is rent, and become horrible,
6.My dayes are swifter then da weaver’s shittle, and they are spent without hope.
7.Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shal not return to se pleasure.
8.The eye that hathe sene me, shal se me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I shalbe no longer.
9.eAs the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the grave, shal fcome up nomore.
10.He shal returne nomore to his house, nether shal his place knowe him anymore.
11.Therefore I wil not gspare my mouthe, but wil speake in the trouble of my spirit, & muse in the bitternes of my minde.
12.Am I a sea hor a whalefish, that thou kepest me in warde?
13.When I say, My couche shal relieve me, and my bed shal bring comfort in my meditation,
14.Then fearest thou me iwith dreames, and astonishest me with visions.
15.Therefore my soule kchoseth rather to be strangled and to dye, then to be in my bones.
16.I abhorre it, I shal not live alway: lspare me then, for my daies are but vanitie.
17.What is man, that thou mdoest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart upon him?
18.And doest visit him everie morning, and tryest him everie moment?
19.How long wil it be yer thou departe from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spetle.
20.I have nsinned, what shal I do unto thee? ô thou preserver of men, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden unto my self?
21.And why doest thou not pardone my trespass? and take away mine iniquitie? for now shal I slepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me in the morning, I shal onor be founde.

Notes

1-a.
Has not an hired servant some rest and ease? then in this my continual torment I am worse than an hireling.
3-b.
My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have looked for hope in vain.
5-c.
This signifies that his disease was rare and most horrible.
6-d.
Thus he speaks in respect of the brevity of man’s life, which passes without hope of returning: inconsideration whereof he desires God to have compassion on him.
9-e.
If you behold me in your anger, I shall not be able to stand in your presence.
9-f.
Shal no more enjoy this mortal life.
11-g.
Seeing I can by nonother means I comfort myself, I will declare my grief by words and thus he speaks as one overcome with grief of mind.
12-h.
Am not I a poor wretch? what needs you then to lay so much pain on me?
14-i.
So that I can have no rest, night nor day.
15-k.
He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judge- ment, or of the examination of his faith.
16-l.
Seeing my time of life is so short, let me have some rest & ease.
17-m.
Seeing that man of himself is so vile, why do you give him that honour to contend against him? Job uses all kinds of persuasion with God, that he might stay his hand.
20-n.
After all tentations faith brasts forth and leads Job to repen- tance: yet it was not in such perfection, that he could bridle himself from reasoning with God, because that he still tried his faith.
21-o.
That is, I shall be dead. 6 Geneva Bible 1560