Job 7

1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?Cross-references: Lev 25:50 · Deut 15:18 · Job 5:7 · Job 14:5 · Job 14:13 · Ps 39:4 · +6 more

2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,Cross-references: Lev 19:13 · Deut 24:15 · Ps 119:131 · Ps 143:6 · Jer 6:4 · Mal 3:5 · +1 more

3so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.Cross-references: Job 16:7 · Job 29:2 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 39:5 · Eccl 1:14

4When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.Cross-references: Deut 28:67 · Job 7:13 · Job 17:12 · Job 30:17 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 77:4 · +3 more

5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.Cross-references: Job 2:7 · Job 9:31 · Job 17:14 · Job 19:26 · Job 24:20 · Job 30:18 · +6 more

6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.Cross-references: Job 6:11 · Job 9:25 · Job 13:15 · Job 16:22 · Job 17:11 · Job 17:15 · +13 more

7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.Cross-references: Gen 42:36 · Neh 1:8 · Job 9:25 · Job 10:9 · Job 10:21 · Ps 74:18 · +6 more

8The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.Cross-references: Job 8:18 · Job 13:27 · Job 14:3 · Job 20:9 · Ps 37:36 · Ps 39:11 · +1 more

9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:23 · 2Sam 14:14 · Job 10:21 · Job 11:8 · Job 14:10 · Job 16:22 · +4 more

10He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.Cross-references: Job 8:18 · Job 20:9 · Job 27:21 · Job 27:23 · Ps 103:16

11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Cross-references: Gen 42:21 · 1Sam 1:10 · 2Ki 4:27 · Job 6:26 · Job 10:1 · Job 10:15 · +11 more

12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?Cross-references: Job 7:17 · Job 38:6 · Job 41:1 · Lam 3:7 · Ezek 32:2

13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’Cross-references: Job 7:3 · Job 9:27 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 77:4

14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,Cross-references: Gen 40:5 · Gen 41:8 · Judg 7:13 · Dan 2:1 · Matt 27:19

15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.Cross-references: 2Sam 17:23 · Matt 27:5

16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.Cross-references: Gen 27:46 · 1Ki 19:4 · Job 3:20 · Job 6:9 · Job 9:21 · Job 10:1 · +10 more

17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,Cross-references: 1Sam 24:14 · Job 7:12 · Job 34:14 · Ps 8:4 · Ps 144:3 · Heb 2:6

18that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Ex 20:5 · Ex 32:34 · Deut 8:16 · Job 14:3 · Isa 26:14 · +5 more

19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?Cross-references: Job 9:18 · Job 14:6 · Ps 6:3 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 94:3 · Rev 6:10

20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?Cross-references: Neh 9:6 · Job 3:24 · Job 6:4 · Job 7:11 · Job 9:29 · Job 13:26 · +11 more

21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”Cross-references: 2Sam 24:10 · Job 3:13 · Job 7:8 · Job 10:9 · Job 10:14 · Job 13:23 · +16 more