{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:17:04.706Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are on me, and I am not."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men?  why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}