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| 1 Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling? |
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| 2 As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages, |
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| 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. |
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| 4 If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn. |
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| 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates. |
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| 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. |
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| 7 Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good. |
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| 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. |
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| 9 The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up. |
Down to the grave – Sheol, oblivion, death, not torment. E358, R2600:1, R828:5
Come up no more – Mankind had no hope of saving themselves. R194:2
This was, properly, the human standpoint; for the ransom had not yet been paid. R194:2
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| 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again. |
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| 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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| 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me? |
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| 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; |
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| 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions; |
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| 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. |
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| 16 I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. |
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| 17 What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him? |
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| 18 And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment? |
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| 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? |
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| 20 Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself? |
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| 21 And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be. |
Pardon my transgression – Job seemed to realize that God intended furnishing a ransom for sin to take away the sin of the world. R194:2
Sleep in the dust – Sleep in death during the night of weeping and trouble, dying and crying. E359
Thou shalt seek me – In resurrection power. E359
In the morning – The Millennial morning when the night of death and weeping is past. E359; R678:3, R194:2, R604:3*, R1017:6*
But I shall not be – Death will have worked my utter destruction. E359; R678:3, R1017:6*, R846:4
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