If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?Job 7:20+The WatcherJob seems to be channeling a dystopic 1984 view of God, wit...  Read More

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?Job 7:19+How Long?How long? It’s a question posed to God in the Bible more than once.  Here Job focuses on what he pe...  Read More

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?Job 7:17–18+Morning VisitsWe teach our children to pray, “I pray, forgi...  Read More

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?Job 7:17–18+What is Man?Often times people who only see the good side o...  Read More

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.Job 7:16+Not Live ForeverThese words from Job seem harsh and impious.  “Leave me alone” we hear him say.  Why would...  Read More

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.Job 7...  Read More

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?Job 7:12+Sea MonstersJob wonders out loud to God in this verse if He sees him as His enemy.  The vastness of the seas which can hide many h...  Read More

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Job 7:11+No Restraint“Bite your tongue,” we are often told.  Don’t lash o...  Read More

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.Job 7:9-10+Life Amongst the CloudsFor many death is...  Read More

Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.Job 7:7-8+Life is a BreathFor the fir...  Read More

When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. My days ar...  Read More

“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months ...  Read More