A moment in scripture
Job 7:3
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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
- Job 7:2
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
- Job 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.
- Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.