June 24, 2025, Job 7:1-21
7 “Has not
man a hard service on earth,
and are
not his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
and
like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
3 so I am allotted months of emptiness,
and
nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4 When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’
But the
night is long,
and I am
full of tossing till the dawn.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
my skin
hardens, then breaks out afresh.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
and come
to their end without hope.
7 “Remember
that my life is a breath;
my eye
will never again see good.
8 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
while
your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
9 As the cloud fades and vanishes,
so he
who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
10 he returns no more to his house,
nor does
his place know him anymore.
11 “Therefore
I will not restrain my mouth;
I will
speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I
will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I the sea, or a sea monster,
that you
set a guard over me?
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
my couch
will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
and
terrify me with visions,
15 so that I would choose strangling
and
death rather than my bones.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Leave me
alone, for my days are a breath.
17 What is man, that you make so much of him,
and that
you set your heart on him,
18 visit him every morning
and test
him every moment?
19 How long will you not look away from me,
nor
leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of
mankind?
Why have
you made me your mark?
Why have
I become a burden to you?
21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take
away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you
will seek me, but I shall not be.”
Job
pleads with God to show him his sin if has any so it can be resolved and his
pain alleviated. Have you found yourself in a similar situation? Did God give
an indication of your sin so that you could repent and have your pain
alleviated?
Debbie
Walker
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