Job · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Job 7 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 Nor shall he return my more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?
20 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?
21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
- 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
- 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
- 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
- 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
- 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
- 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
- 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
- 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
- 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
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