Job Chapter 7 to 8 : King James Version

7 1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4When 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. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; 14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20I 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? 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
8 1Then
answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2How long wilt
thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth
be like a strong wind? 3Doth God pervert judgment? or
doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4If thy children have
sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their
transgression; 5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,
and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6If thou wert
pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the
habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7Though thy
beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare
thyself to the search of their fathers: 9(For we are but
of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a
shadow:) 10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and
utter words out of their heart? 11Can the rush grow up
without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12Whilst
it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before
any other herb. 13So are the paths of all that forget
God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: 14Whose hope
shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. 15He
shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it
fast, but it shall not endure. 16He is green before the
sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. 17His
roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny
him, saying, I have not seen thee. 19Behold, this is the
joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. 20Behold,
God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil
doers: 21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy
lips with rejoicing. 22They that hate thee shall be
clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come
to nought.