Job 6:1

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Job

6 Then Job replied:

Job 7

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7 “Do not mortals have hard service^(A) on earth?^(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?^(C)
²Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,^(D)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,^(E)
³so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.^(F)
⁴When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’^(G)
    The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.^(H)
⁵My body is clothed with worms^(I) and scabs,
    my skin is broken and festering.^(J)

⁶“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,^(K)
    and they come to an end without hope.^(L)
⁷Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;^(M)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.^(N)
⁸The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
    you will look for me, but I will be no more.^(O)
⁹As a cloud vanishes^(P) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave^(Q) does not return.^(R)
¹⁰He will never come to his house again;
    his place^(S) will know him no more.^(T)

¹¹“Therefore I will not keep silent;^(U)
    I will speak out in the anguish^(V) of my spirit,
    I will complain^(W) in the bitterness of my soul.^(X)
¹²Am I the sea,^(Y) or the monster of the deep,^(Z)
    that you put me under guard?^(AA)
¹³When I think my bed will comfort me
    and my couch will ease my complaint,^(AB)
¹⁴even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify^(AC) me with visions,^(AD)
¹⁵so that I prefer strangling and death,^(AE)
    rather than this body of mine.^(AF)
¹⁶I despise my life;^(AG) I would not live forever.^(AH)
    Let me alone;^(AI) my days have no meaning.^(AJ)

¹⁷“What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,^(AK)
¹⁸that you examine them every morning^(AL)
    and test them^(AM) every moment?^(AN)
¹⁹Will you never look away from me,^(AO)
    or let me alone even for an instant?^(AP)
²⁰If I have sinned, what have I done to you,^(AQ)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?^(AR)
    Have I become a burden to you?^[a]^(AS)
²¹Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?^(AT)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;^(AU)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”^(AV)

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Footnotes

Job 7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.

Acts 10:1-16

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Cornelius Calls for Peter

10 At Caesarea^(A) there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. ²He and all his family were devout and God-fearing;^(B) he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. ³One day at about three in the afternoon^(C) he had a vision.^(D) He distinctly saw an angel^(E) of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

⁴Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.

The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering^(F) before God.^(G) ⁵Now send men to Joppa^(H) to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. ⁶He is staying with Simon the tanner,^(I) whose house is by the sea.”

⁷When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. ⁸He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.^(J)

Peter’s Vision^(K)

⁹About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof^(L) to pray. ¹⁰He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.^(M) ¹¹He saw heaven opened^(N) and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. ¹²It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. ¹³Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

¹⁴“Surely not, Lord!”^(O) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”^(P)

¹⁵The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”^(Q)

¹⁶This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

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John 7:1-13

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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want^[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders^(A) there were looking for a way to kill him.^(B) ²But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles^(C) was near, ³Jesus’ brothers^(D) said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. ⁴No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵For even his own brothers did not believe in him.^(E)

⁶Therefore Jesus told them, “My time^(F) is not yet here; for you any time will do. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(G) because I testify that its works are evil.^(H) ⁸You go to the festival. I am not^[b] going up to this festival, because my time^(I) has not yet fully come.” ⁹After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. ¹¹Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus^(J) and asking, “Where is he?”

¹²Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”

Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”^(K) ¹³But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.^(L)

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