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Job Addresses God

Remember that my life is just a breath.[a]
My eyes will never again see good fortune.
The eyes that see me now will no longer watch me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will not be there.
As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
so does the one who goes down to the grave.[b]
He does not come back up again.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:7 This verse begins a new section of Job’s speech. For the rest of the chapter, Job is no longer speaking to Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, but directly to God. This happens often in Job’s speeches.
  2. Job 7:9 Hebrew sheol