7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
job:14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
isa:40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
job:14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
psm:39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
job:14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7:1 (tw) 人在世上豈無爭戰麼.他的日子不像雇工人的日子麼。
7:1 (cn) 人在世上岂无争战麽。他的日子不像雇工人的日子麽。
7:2
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
7:4
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.
7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
7:11
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.
7:12
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
7:14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
7:18
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
7:19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
7:20
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?
7:21
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 shall not be.