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7.4 :When I lie down, I say: 'When shall I arise?'
 * But the night is long, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
 * My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;
 * My skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
 * My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
 * And are spent without hope.
 * O remember that my life is a breath;
 * Mine eye shall no more see good.
 * The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;
 * While Thine eyes are upon me, I am gone.
 * As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,
 * So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
 * He shall return no more to his house,
 * Neither shall his place know him any more.


 * 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.
 * Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,
 * That Thou settest a watch over me?
 * When I say: 'My bed shall comfort me,
 * My couch shall ease my complaint';
 * Then Thou scarest me with dreams,
 * And terrifiest me through visions;
 * So that my soul chooseth strangling,
 * And death rather than these my bones.
 * I loathe it; I shall not live alway;
 * Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
 * What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him,
 * And that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,
 * And that Thou shouldest remember him every morning,
 * And try him every moment?
 * How long wilt Thou not look away from me,
 * Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
 * If I have sinned, what do I unto Thee, O Thou watcher of men?
 * Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee,
 * So that I am a burden to myself?
 * And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression,
 * And take away mine iniquity?
 * For now shall I lie down in the dust;
 * And Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:


 * How long wilt thou speak these things,
 * Seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?
 * Doth God pervert judgment?
 * Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
 * If thy children sinned against Him,
 * He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
 * If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God,
 * And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
 * If thou wert pure and upright;
 * Surely now He would awake for thee,
 * And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.