1The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

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Psalms 39:4, Psalms 39:4, Job 14:5, Job 14:6, Job 14:5

2As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

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Leviticus 19:13, Leviticus 19:13, Deuteronomy 24:15, Deuteronomy 24:15, James 5:4

3So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.

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Psalms 6:6, Psalms 6:6, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Job 29:2

4If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

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Deuteronomy 28:67, Deuteronomy 28:67, Job 7:13, Job 7:14, Job 7:13

5My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

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Job 17:14, Isaiah 14:11, Job 17:14, Isaiah 14:11, Job 2:7

6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

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Job 9:25, Job 9:25, Job 17:15, Job 17:15, Isaiah 40:6

7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

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James 4:14, James 4:14, Psalms 78:39, Psalms 78:39, Jeremiah 15:15

8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

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Job 20:9, Job 20:9, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 90:8

9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

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2 Samuel 14:14, 2 Samuel 14:14, Job 16:22, Job 30:15, Job 14:10

10Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more

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Job 8:18, Job 8:18, Psalms 103:16, Job 20:9, Psalms 103:16

11Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

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Psalms 40:9, Psalms 40:9, Job 10:1, 1 Samuel 1:10, Job 10:1

12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

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Job 7:17, Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:3, Job 38:6, Job 38:11

13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:

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Psalms 6:6, Psalms 6:6, Job 7:3, Job 7:4, Psalms 77:4

14Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

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Genesis 40:5, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 41:8, Daniel 2:1, Genesis 40:5

15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

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2 Samuel 17:23, Matthew 27:5, 2 Samuel 17:23, Matthew 27:5

16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

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1 Kings 19:4, Job 10:1, 1 Kings 19:4, Job 10:1, Jonah 4:8

17What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

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Hebrews 2:6, Hebrews 2:6, Psalms 8:4, Psalms 8:4, Psalms 144:3

18Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.

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Isaiah 38:12, Isaiah 38:13, 1 Peter 1:7, Jeremiah 9:7, Isaiah 38:12

19How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

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Job 9:18, Job 9:18, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 13:3, Job 14:6

20I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

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Lamentations 3:12, Lamentations 3:12, Job 3:24, Job 7:11, Job 7:12

21Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

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Daniel 12:2, Job 10:14, Daniel 12:2, Job 10:14, Isaiah 64:9