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Job Chapter 7

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Job

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In chapter 7 the Lord sends a severe wind and a great rain that destroys the crops of Job and his friends, causing deep sorrow. The chapter shows God’s power and the futility of human effort, reminding readers that even the righteous can suffer.

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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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Job 14:5Job 14:13Job 14:14Psalms 39:4Isaiah 38:5John 11:9John 11:10Ecclesiastes 8:8Job 14:6Leviticus 25:50Deuteronomy 15:18Isaiah 21:16

(2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
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Psalms 119:131Psalms 143:6Jeremiah 6:4Leviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:15Malachi 3:5James 5:4

(3) So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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Job 29:2Psalms 6:6Psalms 39:5Ecclesiastes 1:14

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Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19Esther 2:12Ecclesiastes 1:2

(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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Job 7:13Job 7:14Job 17:12Job 30:17Deuteronomy 28:67Psalms 6:6Psalms 77:4Psalms 130:6Psalms 109:23Isaiah 54:11

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Zechariah 6:7

(5) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Job 2:7Job 2:8Job 17:14Job 19:26Job 24:20Job 30:18Job 30:19Psalms 38:5Psalms 38:6Psalms 38:7Isaiah 1:6Isaiah 14:11

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Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(6) My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Job 9:25Job 16:22Job 17:11Psalms 90:5Psalms 90:6Psalms 102:11Psalms 103:15Psalms 103:16Psalms 144:4Isaiah 38:12Isaiah 38:13Isaiah 40:6

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Romans 8:24I Corinthians 9:10

(7) O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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Job 10:9Genesis 42:36Nehemiah 1:8Psalms 74:18Psalms 74:22Psalms 89:47Psalms 89:50Jeremiah 15:15Psalms 78:39James 4:14Job 10:21Job 10:22

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Luke 6:42I Kings 19:11Leviticus 26:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(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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Job 20:9Psalms 37:36Job 13:27Job 14:3Psalms 39:11Psalms 90:8Psalms 90:9

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(9) As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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Job 37:11Job 10:21Job 14:10Job 14:11Job 14:12Job 14:13Job 14:14Job 16:22II Samuel 12:23II Samuel 14:14Psalms 39:13Isaiah 38:11

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Numbers 9:21

(10) He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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Job 8:18Job 20:9Psalms 103:16

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(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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Job 6:26Job 10:1Job 13:13Job 16:6Job 21:3Psalms 39:3Psalms 40:9Genesis 42:21II Kings 4:27II Kings 4:28Matthew 26:37Matthew 26:38

(12) Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Job 7:17Job 38:6Job 38:7Job 38:8Job 38:9Job 38:10Job 38:11Lamentations 3:7Job 41:1Job 41:2Job 41:3Job 41:4

(13) When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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Job 7:3Job 7:4Job 9:27Job 9:28Psalms 6:6Psalms 77:4

(14) Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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Genesis 40:5Genesis 40:6Genesis 40:7Genesis 41:8Judges 7:13Judges 7:14Daniel 2:1Matthew 27:19

(15) So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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II Samuel 17:23Matthew 27:5

(16) I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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Job 3:20Job 3:21Job 3:22Job 6:9Job 10:1Genesis 27:46I Kings 19:4Jonah 4:3Jonah 4:8Job 10:20Job 14:6Psalms 39:10

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Ecclesiastes 9:9Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Ecclesiastes 1:2

(17) What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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Psalms 8:4Psalms 144:3Hebrews 2:6Job 7:12I Samuel 24:14Job 34:14Job 34:15

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Obadiah 1:12II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19Job 10:3Job 38:20Ecclesiastes 5:5

(18) And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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Exodus 20:5Exodus 32:34Isaiah 26:14Isaiah 38:12Isaiah 38:13Genesis 22:1Deuteronomy 8:16Jeremiah 9:7Daniel 12:10Zechariah 13:9I Peter 1:7

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Obadiah 1:12

(19) How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Job 9:18Psalms 6:3Psalms 13:1Psalms 13:2Psalms 13:3Psalms 94:3Revelation 6:10

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II Kings 8:12Psalms 13:1Exodus 15:26Job 8:2Proverbs 6:9Habakkuk 1:2

(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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Job 9:29Job 9:30Job 9:31Job 13:26Job 14:16Job 22:5Job 31:33Job 33:9Job 33:27Psalms 80:4Nehemiah 9:6Psalms 36:6

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I Samuel 1:8Jeremiah 23:38

(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.
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Job 10:14Job 13:23Job 13:24Isaiah 64:9Lamentations 3:42Lamentations 3:43Lamentations 3:44Lamentations 5:20Lamentations 5:21Lamentations 5:22II Samuel 24:10Micah 7:18

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Romans 14:10I Samuel 1:8Psalms 43:2Habakkuk 1:3Exodus 34:7Numbers 14:18

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