Part 6

18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

18:007:004 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.

18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

18:007:011 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.

18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

18:007:020 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?

18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.