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| 1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth And as the days of an hireling his days |
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| 2 As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage, |
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| 3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. |
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| 4 If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn. |
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| 5 Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome, |
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| 6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. |
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| 7 Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. |
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| 8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me and I am not. |
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| 9 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not 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 turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again. |
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| 11 Also I I withhold not my mouth I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 12 A sea-[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard |
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| 13 When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. |
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| 14 And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me, |
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| 15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones. |
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| 16 I have wasted away not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity. |
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| 17 What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart |
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| 18 And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him |
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| 19 How long dost Thou not look from me Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle. |
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| 20 I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself and what |
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| 21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me and I am not! |
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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