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| 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? |
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| 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
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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 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. |
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| 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. |
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| 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. |
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| 7 O remember 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 see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. |
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| 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. |
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 any more. |
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| 11 Therefore I will not refrain 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 whale, 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, and death rather than my life. |
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| 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. |
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| 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? |
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| 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? |
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| 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? |
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| 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? |
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| 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but 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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