{"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/kjv/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:35:11.815Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"<i>Is there</i> not an appointed time to man upon earth? <i>are not</i> his days also like the days of an hireling?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for <i>the reward of</i> 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 unto 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 <i>is</i> wind: mine eye shall no more see good."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no <i>more</i>: thine eyes <i>are</i> upon me, and I <i>am</i> not."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"<i>As</i> the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no <i>more</i>."},{"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":"<i>Am</i> I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"So that my soul chooseth strangling, <i>and</i> death rather than my life."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I loathe <i>it</i>; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days <i>are</i> vanity."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What <i>is</i> man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And <i>that</i> thou shouldest visit him every morning, <i>and</i> try him every moment?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I 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?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i>."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/7 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}