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| 1 Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days? |
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| 2 As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage, |
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| 3 So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me. |
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| 4 As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight. |
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| 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh: |
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| 6 My days, are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
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| 7 Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing: |
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| 8 Nor shall see me–the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not. |
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| 9 A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, 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 not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more. |
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| 11 I also, cannot restrain my mouth,–I must speak, in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance, in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 12 Am, I, a sea, or a sea-monster,–That thou shouldst set over me a watch? |
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| 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint, |
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| 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me: |
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| 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones! |
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| 16 I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days. |
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| 17 What is a mortal, that thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind? |
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| 18 That thou shouldst inspect him morning by morning, moment by moment, shouldst test him? |
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| 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow my spittle? |
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| 20 I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden? |
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| 21 And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should 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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