Job:7:9: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job:7:10: He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job: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.
Job:7:12: Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job:7:13: When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job:7:14: Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job:7:15: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job:7:16: I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job:7:17: What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Job:7:18: And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Job:7:19: How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job: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?
Job: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.

Chapter 8

Job:8:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job:8:2: How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
Job:8:3: Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job:8:4: If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job:8:5: If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Job:8:6: If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job:8:7: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Job:8:8: For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Job:8:9: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Job:8:10: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job:8:11: Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Job:8:12: Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Job:8:13: So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Job:8:14: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
Job:8:15: He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job:8:16: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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