TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION 7 Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor, 2 like a slave longing for cool shade; like a worker waiting for his pay. 3 Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief. 4 When I lie down to sleep, the hour... [ Continue Reading ]
5. God decrees what man receives. (Job 7:1-10) TEXT 7:1-10 7 IS THERE NOT A WARFARE TO MAN UPON EARTH? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages: 3 So am I made to possess months of misery,... [ Continue Reading ]
6. He finds no mercy, neither from God or from his friends. (Job 7:11-15) TEXT 7:11-15 11 THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MONTH; 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 sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me? 13 When I... [ Continue Reading ]
7. To God he addresses some difficult questions. (Job 7:16-21) TEXT 7:16-21 16 I LOATHE _my life;_ I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What Is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him, 18 And that thou shouldest visit him... [ Continue Reading ]