Job 7

Verse 1

WEB “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

KJV Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

TSK Is there: job 14:5,13,14, ps 39:4, isa 38:5, joh 11:9,10; an appointed time: ec 8:8; like the days: job 14:6, le 25:50, de 15:18, isa 21:16, mt 20:1-15

Verse 2

WEB As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

KJV As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

TSK ernestly desireth: ps 119:131, ps 143:6; the shadow: jer 6:4; as an hireling: le 19:13, de 24:15, mal 3:5, jas 5:4

Verse 3

WEB so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

KJV So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

TSK months of: job 29:2, ps 6:6, ps 39:5, ec 1:14

Verse 4

WEB When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

KJV 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.

TSK When: job 7:13,14, job 17:12, job 30:17, de 28:67, ps 6:6, ps 77:4, ps 130:6; tossings: ps 109:23, isa 54:11

Verse 5

WEB My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

KJV My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

TSK flesh: job 2:7,8, job 17:14, job 19:26, job 24:20, job 30:18,19, ps 38:5-7, isa 1:6, isa 14:11, ac 12:23; loathsome: job 9:31, isa 66:24, eze 20:43

Verse 6

WEB My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

KJV My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

TSK swifter: job 9:25, job 16:22, job 17:11, ps 90:5,6, ps 102:11, ps 103:15,16, ps 144:4, isa 38:12,13, isa 40:6,7, jas 1:11, jas 4:14, 1pe 1:24; without hope: job 6:11, job 17:15, pr 14:32, jer 2:25, eph 2:12, 1pe 1:13

Verse 7

WEB Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

KJV O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

TSK remember: job 10:9, ge 42:36, ne 1:8, ps 74:18,22, ps 89:47,50, jer 15:15; my life: ps 78:39, jas 4:14; no more see: job 10:21,22

Verse 8

WEB The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

KJV The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

TSK The eye: job 20:9, ps 37:36; thine eyes: job 13:27, job 14:3, ps 39:11, ps 90:8,9

Verse 9

WEB As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

KJV As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

TSK the cloud: job 37:11; he: job 10:21, job 14:10-14, job 16:22, 2sa 12:23, 2sa 14:14, ps 39:13, isa 38:11

Verse 10

WEB He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

KJV He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

TSK shall return: job 8:18, job 20:9, ps 103:16

Verse 11

WEB “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

KJV 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.

TSK I will not: job 6:26, job 10:1, job 13:13, job 16:6, job 21:3, ps 39:3, ps 40:9; the anguish: ge 42:21, 2ki 4:27,28, mt 26:37,38, lu 22:44, 2co 2:4; the bitterness: job 10:15, job 21:25, 1sa 1:10, isa 38:15,17

Verse 12

WEB Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

KJV Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

TSK I a sea: job 7:17, job 38:6-11, la 3:7; a whale: job 41:1-34

Verse 13

WEB When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’

KJV When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

TSK My bed: job 7:3,4, job 9:27,28, ps 6:6, ps 77:4

Verse 14

WEB then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

KJV Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

TSK thou scarest: ge 40:5-7, ge 41:8, jud 7:13,14, da 2:1, mt 27:19

Verse 15

WEB so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

KJV So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

TSK chooseth: 2sa 17:23, mt 27:5

Verse 16

WEB I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

KJV I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

TSK I loathe it: job 3:20-22, job 6:9, job 10:1, ge 27:46, 1ki 19:4, jon 4:3,8; let me alone: job 10:20, job 14:6, ps 39:10,13; my days: ps 62:9, ps 78:33, ps 144:4, ec 6:11,12

Verse 17

WEB What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

KJV What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

TSK What is man: ps 8:4, ps 144:3, heb 2:6; magnify: job 7:12, 1sa 24:14; set thine: job 34:14,15

Verse 18

WEB that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

KJV And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

TSK visit: ex 20:5, ex 32:34, isa 26:14, isa 38:12,13; try: ge 22:1, de 8:16, jer 9:7, da 12:10, zec 13:9, 1pe 1:7

Verse 19

WEB How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

KJV How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

TSK How long: job 9:18, ps 6:3, ps 13:1-3, ps 94:3, re 6:10

Verse 20

WEB If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

KJV 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?

TSK I have sinned: job 9:29-31, job 13:26, job 14:16, job 22:5, job 31:33, job 33:9,27, ps 80:4; O thou preserver: ne 9:6, ps 36:6; why hast: job 7:12, job 6:4, job 16:12-14, ps 21:12, la 3:12; I am: job 7:11, job 3:24

Verse 21

WEB Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”

KJV 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.

TSK why dost: job 10:14, job 13:23,24, isa 64:9, la 3:42-44, la 5:20-22; take away: 2sa 24:10, mic 7:18,19, ho 14:2, joh 1:29, tit 2:14, 1jo 1:9, 1jo 3:5; sleep: job 3:13, job 17:14, job 21:32,33, ec 12:7, isa 26:19, da 12:2; but I shall not be: ps 37:36, ps 103:15