1 | "Isn`t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren`t his days like the days of a hired hand? | Jb 14:5 Jb 14:13 Jb 14:14 Ps 39:4 Isa 38:5 Jn 11:9 Jn 11:10 |
2 | As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, As a hireling who looks for his wages, | Ps 119:131 Ps 143:6 |
3 | So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me. | Jb 29:2 Ps 6:6 Ps 39:5 Ec 1:14 |
4 | When I lie down, I say, `When shall I arise, and the night be gone?` I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. | Jb 7:13 Jb 7:14 Jb 17:12 Jb 30:17 Dt 28:67 Ps 6:6 Ps 77:4 Ps 130:6 |
5 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. | Jb 2:7 Jb 2:8 Jb 17:14 Jb 19:26 Jb 24:20 Jb 30:18 Jb 30:19 Ps 38:5-7 Isa 1:6 Isa 14:11 Ac 12:23 |
6 | My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, And are spent without hope. | Jb 9:25 Jb 16:22 Jb 17:11 Ps 90:5 Ps 90:6 Ps 102:11 Ps 103:15 Ps 103:16 Ps 144:4 Isa 38:12 Isa 38:13 Isa 40:6 Isa 40:7 Jm 1:11 Jm 4:14 1Pe 1:24 |
7 | Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. | Jb 10:9 Gn 42:36 Ne 1:8 Ps 74:18 Ps 74:22 Ps 89:47 Ps 89:50 Jer 15:15 |
8 | The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. | Jb 20:9 Ps 37:36 |
9 | As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. | Jb 37:11 |
10 | He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more. | Jb 8:18 Jb 20:9 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. | Jb 6:26 Jb 10:1 Jb 13:13 Jb 16:6 Jb 21:3 Ps 39:3 Ps 40:9 |
12 | Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me? | Jb 7:17 Jb 38:6-11 Lam 3:7 |
13 | When I say, `My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;` | Jb 7:3 Jb 7:4 Jb 9:27 Jb 9:28 Ps 6:6 Ps 77:4 |
14 | Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions: | Gn 40:5-7 Gn 41:8 Jg 7:13 Jg 7:14 Dn 2:1 Mt 27:19 |
15 | So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. | 2Sa 17:23 Mt 27:5 |
16 | I loathe my life. I don`t want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath. | Jb 3:20-22 Jb 6:9 Jb 10:1 Gn 27:46 1Ki 19:4 Jon 4:3 Jon 4:8 |
17 | What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him, | Ps 8:4 Ps 144:3 Heb 2:6 |
18 | That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment? | Ex 20:5 Ex 32:34 Isa 26:14 Isa 38:12 Isa 38:13 |
19 | How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? | Jb 9:18 Ps 6:3 Ps 13:1-3 Ps 94:3 Rev 6:10 |
20 | If 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? | Jb 9:29-31 Jb 13:26 Jb 14:16 Jb 22:5 Jb 31:33 Jb 33:9 Jb 33:27 Ps 80:4 |
21 | Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be." | Jb 10:14 Jb 13:23 Jb 13:24 Isa 64:9 Lam 3:42-44 Lam 5:20-22 |